Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918 . Smithson. Misc. Coll., 68(9):2.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Hunan, Dongting-hu (Tungting Lake) .

DISTRIBUTION: China, Changjiang (Yangtze) and Quintangjiang River systems.

COMMENT: Revised by Zhou et al., 1978, J. Nanjing Teachers College (Nat. Sei.), pp. 8-13; Zhou et al., 1979, Acta Zool. Sin., 25(2):95-100. Reviewed by Brownell and Herald, 1972, Mamm. Species, 10:1 -4.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301411001002001001.