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Reference Base  Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist |
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Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist |
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Medway, Lord |
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1977 |
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Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7) |
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| Pages: |
pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| A similar situation prevailed in the settled parts of western Borneo. Here, during 1845-47 in the Sarawak district (i.e. approximately the present I Division), Low (1848) found no signs, although later in 1865-67 Beccari (1904) `once heard that the carcase of a rhinoceros had been seen in the Sa... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| In 1976, tracks were found, and a provisional sighting made, in the area of the proposed Danum reserve, S. Segama, Sabah (D. R. Wells, pers. comm.). |
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Taxonomy
Javan Rhino
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| In the first report of rhinoceroses from Borneo in scientific literature, M?ller (1839-40) could offer as authentication only a secondhand description of a one-horned animal, suggesting the occurrence of the Javan Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest. A skull of this species was among a sm... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| The original range of this rhinoceros undoubtedly covered all mainland Borneo, but by the time of the first scientific investigations of the mammal fauna, human depredations had already begun to take their toll and the species was rare in settled areas. That its natural habitat was not restricte... |
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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
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| Didermocerus sumatrensis harrissoni Groves
Didermocerus sumatrensis harrissoni Groves, 1965, Saugetierk. Mitt. 13: 128 - Suan-Lambah, Sabah. |
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Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
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| Genus DIDERMOCERUS Brookes, 1828. Application has been made (Boylan & Green, 1974) to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to suppress the generic name Didermocerus in favour of its synonym Dicerorhinus Gloger, 1841. By this action, the valid systematic name of the Sumatran R... |
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