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Title: A handlist of Malaysian mammals: a systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, including the adjacent small islands
Author(s): Chasen, F.N.
Year published: 1940
Journal: Bulletin of the Raffles Museum
Volume: 15
Pages: i-xx, 1-209, map 1
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
At one time a single rhinoceros of unknown species was well-known to be on the small island of Abang Besar in the Rhio Archipelago. Kloss gave me this information.
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World
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Sumatran Rhino
A larger, northern race is certainly distinct (lasiotis), but on the limited material I have seen I cannot divide sumatrensis as defined above.
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World
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Sumatran Rhino
If a Malayan form proves separable from a Sunda island race, R. blythi Gray, 1873 (Tenasserim) is available.
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World
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Sumatran Rhino
Rh. sumatrensis is the genotype of Dicerorhinus Gloger, 1841.
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