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Haagner, A., 1920. South African mammals: a short manual for the use of field naturalists, sportmen and travellers. London, H.F.G. Witherby and Cape Town, T. Maskew Miller, pp. i-xx, 1-248
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All Rhino Species |
Order UNGULATA. This is a large order containing the true hoofed animals, and excluding under the more modern, and generally accepted classification the Elephants and Rock Rabbits. The digits of the forefeet never exceed four in number, and the carpal and tarsal bones interlock. There are no clavicles.
There are three sub-orders, the Perissodactyla, containing the Tapirs, equine animals and Rhinoceri; the Artiodactyla, containing, the Pigs, hippopotamidae, ruminant animals; and the Lipoterna, embracing, certain extinct forms which need not concern us further.
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