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Lipotidae Zhou, Qian & Li 1978
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Description
Family LIPOTIDAE
(BAIJI)
* Medium-sized river dolphin with a spindle-shaped body, elongated rostrum, rounded melon, broad flippers, and low, triangular dorsal fin; small-teeth.
e 200-250 cm.
* Palearctic Region.
* Middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China.
1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
* 1 species Critically Endangered (probably now extinct).
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Lipotidae, pp. 380-385 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 380, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6600673
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lipotidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Zhou, Qian & Li
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lipotidae Zhou, 1978 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014