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Yangtze River DolphinEducational resources on Yangtze River DolphinYangtze River Dolphin or Lipotes vexillifer is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A1bc, C2b, D. IUCN Profile of the Yangtze River Dolphin ADW: Lipotes vexillifer: Information: Class Mammalia Order Cetacea Family Platanistidae Species Lipotes vexillifer. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/lipotes/l._vexillifer$narrative.html id=spl-1 Chinese Baiji River Dolphin: ...baiji," Lipotes vexillifer is known by a range of common names, which include Chinese http://www.newpaltz.edu/~rowe22/ id=spl-2 River Dolphins: Yangtze River dolphin. Scientific Name: Lipotes vexillifer Other Names: http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~narf/dolp/riverd.shtml id=spl-3 OBIS-SEAMAP - Species Profiles: Scientific Synonyms (since 1950), None. Common Name, Baiji. All Common Names, Chinese: http://seamap.env.duke.edu/species/tsn/180409 id=spl-4 Amazonia: What's in a Name? - National Zoo| FONZ: ...naturalist Etienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire. The Yangtze River dolphin's name, http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/whataname.cfm id=spl-5 River Dolphins of No Return - National Zoo| FONZ: The other three live in Asian river systems and all of them are endangered: The http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2003/5/RiverDolphins.cfm id=spl-6 ASK Archive 2003: Baiji River Dolphin extinction: ...natural habitat. Other names for it include Chinese River Dolphin, Yangtze http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask03/0170.html id=spl-7 In Search of the Baiji: LAST YANGTZE RIVER DOLPHIN IN CAPTIVITY DIES The only white-finned dolphin (also http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/hoard/baiji/baiji8b.html id=spl-8 China’s Exotic and Zoo Animals: ...o Very good swimmers. Chinese River Dolphin. ¨ Classification: Leipo vexillifer. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tstewart/ansc295K/China/Factsheets/exotic_and_zoo_animals-roley.htm id=spl-9
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