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A checklist of African mammals |
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Allen, G.M. |
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1939 |
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Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University |
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83 |
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1-713 |
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Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum simum. Range: Formerly parts of South Africa from Orange River north to the Zambesi. Now extinct except in a protected area of Zululand, Natal. |
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White Rhino
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| Synonyms of Ceratotherium.
Ceratotherium Gray. Square-lipped or White Rhino
Ceratotherium Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 1027, 1867. Genotype Rhinoceros simus Burchell (see Sclater, W. L., Mamm. South Africa, 1: 297, 1900).
Rhinoceros, Opsiceros, Atelodus, Rhinaster, Diceros, Coel... |
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Black Rhino
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| Subspecies recognized
D.b.bicornis
D.b. somaliensis |
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White Rhino
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| CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM COTTONI (Lydekker). Northern Square-lipped Rhino
Rhinoceros simus cottoni Lydekker, The Field (London), 111: 319, 22 Feb. 1908. Lado Enclave. See Heller, E. The White Rhinoceros. Smithsonian Misc.Coll., 61: no.1, p. 1-77, pl. 1-31, 1913; Trouessart, E. L. Le rh... |
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All Rhino Species
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| African species. family Rhinocerotidae
genus Ceratotherium Gray
- species: C. simum simum, C. simum cottoni
genus Diceros Gray
- species: D. bicornis bicornis, D. bicornis somaliensis. |
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Black Rhino
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| DICEROS BICORNIS SOMALIENSIS (Potocki). Somali Black Rhino
Rhinoceros brucii Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. R?gne Animal, Mamm., p. 159, 1842. Said by Schwarz (Ergebn. Zweiten Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr.-Exped. 1910-11, 1: 870, June 1920) to be a valid name based on Blainville's 'Rhinoc?ros d'Abissini... |
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White Rhino
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| CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM (Burchell). Square-lipped or White Rhino
Rhinoceros simus Burchell, Bull. des Sci. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, p. 97, pl., f.1, 2, 1817. Interior of South Africa, near lat. 26? S.
Rhinoceros canus Griffith, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 5: 292, 1827. Southern Africa.... |
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Black Rhino
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| Synonym of Diceros bicornis somaliensis: Rhinoceros cucullatus Wagner, Schreber's S?ugthiere, Suppl., 6: 317, pl. 317F, 1835. No locality, but perhaps East Africa; unidentifiable. 'Perhape refers to an Asiatic species' (Hollister, N., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 99, pt. 3, p. 136, 1924). |
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Sumatran Rhino
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| Synonym of Ceratotherium simum.
Rhinoceros crossii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1854, p. 250, text-f., 11 Apr. 1855. No locality. The specimen on which this species was founded is a horn, which though referred by Trouessart to Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Cuvier), has more the appearance of ... |
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| Synonym of D.b.bicornis. Opsiceros occidentalis Zukowsky, Arch. f. Naturgesch., 88: sect. A, pt. 7, p. 162, June 1922. Kaokoveld-Kunene region, Southwest Africa. Regarded by Shortridge (Mamm. South West Africa, 1: 412, 1934) as doubtfully distinguishable from the typical form, but if valid, ... |
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A checklist of African mammals
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