Order Cetacea Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 723 743 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Lipotes vexillifer Miller 1918 Lipotes vexillifer Miller 1918 , Smithson. Misc. Coll., 68 (9): 1 . Type Locality: "Tung Ting Lake, about 600 miles up the Yangtze River, [ Hunan ] China ". Vernacular Names: Baiji . Distribution: China : Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Qiantang Jiang (mouth of Fuchun Jiang) river systems. Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered. Discussion: Reviewed by Chen (1989) , Zhou et al. (1978 , 1979 ). Reviewed by Brownell and Herald (1972 , Mammalian Species, 10).