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Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822

Description

Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822

Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822, Mammalogie, in: Encycl. Meth., Vol. 2: 399.

Type Locality: " Sumatra " (Indonesia), later corrected to " Java " (Indonesia).

Vernacular Names: Javan Rhinoceros.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. sondaicus Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. annamiticus Heude 1892

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. inermis Lesson 1838

Distribution: Formerly Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and probably S China through peninsular Malaya to Sumatra and Java. Survives in Ujung Kulon (W Java) and in Vietnam; perhaps in small areas of Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Revised by Groves (1967 c). The type was said to have been obtained by Diard and Duvaucel who were thought to have collected together only on Sumatra, not Java (Sody, 1946) but Rookmaaker (1983) showed that Java is correctly the type locality.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, pp. 629-636 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 636, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Desmarest
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perissodactyla
Family
Rhinocerotidae
Genus
Rhinoceros
Species
sondaicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Groves, C. P. 1967 c. On the rhinoceroses of South-east Asia. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 15: 221 - 237.
  • Sody, H. J. V. 1946. [Review of] " Prehistoric and fossil rhinoceroses of the Malay Archipelago and India', door D. A. Hoojer. Diss., Leiden, 1946, VI + 138 pp., 10 pl. Natuurwetenschappelijk Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie, 102 (7): 151.
  • Rookmaaker, L. C. 1983. Historical notes on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the recent Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). Beaufortia, 33: 37 - 51.