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SPECIES Lipotes vexillifer

Author:Miller, 1918.
Citation:Smithson. Misc. Coll., 68(9): 1.
Common Name:Baiji
Type Locality:"Tung Ting Lake, about 600 miles up the Yangtze River, [Hunan] China".
Distribution:China: Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Qiantang Jiang (mouth of Fuchun Jiang) river systems.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.
Comments:Reviewed by Chen (1989), Zhou et al. (1978, 1979). Reviewed by Brownell and Herald (1972, Mammalian Species, 10).
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