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Title: Notes on the type specimen of Rhinoceros lasiotis Sclater, with remarks on the generic position of the living species of rhinoceros
Author(s): Thomas, O.
Year published: 1901
Journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume: 1901 June 4
Pages: 154-158
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Sumatran Rhino
On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong. As the animal was captured in January 1868, its age at death was more than 32 years.
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Sumatran Rhino
On August 31st, 1900, there died in the Gardens of the Society the famous female Rhinoceros from Chittagong. As the animal was captured in January 1868, its age at death was more than 32 years. The first reference to this specimen is an account of its external characters given by the late Dr. A...
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White Rhino
Should D.simus, on the ground of its much longer skull and the different structure of its molars, be separate generically or subgenerically from D. bicornis, it and its fossil allies would have to bear the name of Coelodonta, Bronn.
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Paper by Prof. Osborn on the 'Phylogeny of the Rhinoceroses of Europe'. [* Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. xiii. p. 229 (1900).] In this paper no less than six groups of the family are recognized, distinguished mainly by the characters of the skull, those of the teeth being considered to be of less phylo...
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Sumatran Rhino
Further material may also prove that the typical horn of Gray's 'Rhinoceros crossii' belongs to the northern subspecies, in which case the name crossii will have to supersede lasiotis. But this identification is as yet too doubtful to be definitely accepted.
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