Published August 31, 2011
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Rhinocerotidae Gray 1821
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Description
Family RHINOCEROTIDAE
(RHINOCEROSES)
• Very large mammals with distinct horns, long ears tipped with hair, three toes, small tail, thick skin, and often with distinct skin folds on body.
• 240-500 cm.
• Afrotropical and Indo-Malayan Regions.
• Tropical montane, lowland, and mangrove forests, short grassland, tall alluvial grassland, savanna, woodland, semi-desert, and scrub.
• 4 genera, 5 species, at least 9 extant taxa.
• 3 species Critically Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; 1 subspecies Extinct in the Wild; 2 subspecies possibly Extinct and 1 subspecies Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2011, Rhinocerotidae, pp. 144-181 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 2 Hoofed Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 144, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5720730
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perissodactyla
- Family
- Rhinocerotidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhinocerotidae Gray, 1821 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2011