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Taxonomy
Lipotes was named by Miller (1918). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Platanistidae by Winge (1921); to Susuidae by Hershkovitz (1966); to Iniinae by Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Brownell and Herald (1972) and Kasuya (1973); to Lipotinae by Barnes (1985); to Iniidae by Miller (1923), Muizon (1984) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Lipotoidea by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Lipotidae by de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Geisler et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Platanistidae by Winge (1921); to Susuidae by Hershkovitz (1966); to Iniinae by Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Brownell and Herald (1972) and Kasuya (1973); to Lipotinae by Barnes (1985); to Iniidae by Miller (1923), Muizon (1984) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Lipotoidea by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Lipotidae by de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Geisler et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Lipotes Miller p. 2 |
| 1921 | Lipotes Winge p. 8 |
| 1923 | Lipotes Miller p. 40 |
| 1945 | Lipotes Simpson p. 101 |
| 1951 | Lipotes Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 720 |
| 1960 | Lipotes Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Lipotes Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1966 | Lipotes Hershkovitz p. 12 |
| 1972 | Lipotes Brownell and Herald p. 1 |
| 1973 | Lipotes Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1984 | Lipotes Muizon p. 68 |
| 1985 | Lipotes Barnes p. 29 |
| 1988 | Lipotes de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Lipotes McKenna and Bell p. 387 |
| 1998 | Lipotes Rice p. 94 |
| 2001 | Lipotes Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2003 | Lipotes Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2005 | Lipotes Mead and Brownell p. 739 |
| 2008 | Lipotes Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2011 | Lipotes Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Lipotes Marx et al. p. 131 |
| 2017 | Lipotes Berta p. 163 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available