 Reference Base  The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition |
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Morphology - Skull |
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Black Rhino |
While ancestral forms of rhinoceros possessed cutting incisor teeth and, in some, canines, these are absent in the black rhinoceros whose dental formula is:
I 0/0, C 0/0, P 3/3, m 3/3 = 24
The premolar teeth are molariform, all the cheekteeth being broad-faced and adapted to grinding up the food.
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