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Lipotes vexillifer (Yangtze River Dolphin; White-flag Dolphin; Baiji; Chinese river dolphin)

Wikipedia Abstract

The baiji (Chinese: 白鱀豚; pinyin: , Lipotes vexillifer, Lipotes meaning "left behind", vexillifer "flag bearer") is a functionally extinct species of freshwater dolphin formerly found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed "Goddess of the Yangtze" (simplified Chinese: 长江女神; traditional Chinese: 長江女神; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng nǚshén) in China, the dolphin is also called Chinese river dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin, whitefin dolphin and Yangtze dolphin. It was regarded as the goddess of protection by local fishermen and boatmen in China (Zhou, 1991). It is not to be confused with the Chinese white dolphin or the finless porpoise.
View Wikipedia Record: Lipotes vexillifer

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Lipotes vexillifer

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
20
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
88
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 39.11
EDGE Score: 6.46
View EDGE Record: Lipotes vexillifer

Attributes

Gestation [2]  10 months 19 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  24 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6.888 feet (210 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  184.087 lbs (83.50 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  25.558 lbs (11.593 kg)
Diet [4]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  100 %
Forages - Marine [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  8 years

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0