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Chinese River Dolphins
Plate 1 of 2. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist

Chinese River Dolphins

Lipotidae

Lipotidae is a family of river dolphins containing the functionally extinct baiji and the fossil genus Parapontoporia. The genus Prolipotes, based on a mandible fragment from Neogene coastal deposits in Guangxi, China, has been classified as an extinct relative of the baiji, but is dubious.

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Lipotes

genusLipotes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846056.