Dicerorhinus

Dicerorhinus; Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Rapunzel, a Sumatran Rhino in the Bronx Zoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Tribe:	Dicerorhinini
Genus:	Dicerorhinus; Gloger, 1841
Species
	†; †; †?; Dicerorhinus sumatrensis;

Dicerorhinus is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros (D. sumatrensis), and several extinct species. The genus likely originated in the Mid to Late Pliocene of Northern Indochina and South China.^[1] Many species attributed to the genus probably actually belong in Stephanorhinus.^[2]

Taxonomy[]

Historically, Dicerorhinus included many more extinct species. This made it a wastebasket taxon. Revisions by several authors over the years have removed many species:

Transferred to Stephanorhinus^[3]

Dicerorhinus merckii
Dicerorhinus hemitoechus
Dicerorhinus etruscus
Dicerorhinus yunchuchenensis
Dicerorhinus jeanvireti
Dicerorhinus choukoutienensis (synonym of Merck's rhinoceros)
Dicerorhinus orientalis (synonym of Merck's rhinoceros)
Dicerorhinus nipponicus^[4]

Transferred to Dihoplus^[3]

Dicerorhinus megarhinus
Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri
Dicerorhinus ringstroemi

Transferred to Caementodon

Dicerorhinus caucasicus^[5]

Transferred to Lartetotherium

Dicerorhinus sansaniensis

Transferred to Rusingaceros

Dicerorhinus leakeyi

References[]

^ Mays, Herman L.; Hung, Chih-Ming; Shaner, Pei-Jen; Denvir, James; Justice, Megan; Yang, Shang-Fang; Roth, Terri L.; Oehler, David A.; Fan, Jun; Rekulapally, Swanthana; Primerano, Donald A. (January 2018). "Genomic Analysis of Demographic History and Ecological Niche Modeling in the Endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis". Current Biology. 28 (1): 70–76.e4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.021. PMC 5894340. PMID 29249659.
^ Tong, Hao-wen (November 2012). "Evolution of the non-Coelodonta dicerorhine lineage in China". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (8): 555–562. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.002.
^ ^a ^b Tong, Hao-wen (2012). "Evolution of the non-Coelodonta dicerorhine lineage in China". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (8): 555–562. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.002.
^ Handa, N.; Kohno, N.; Kudo, Y. (2019). "Reappraisal of a middle Pleistocene rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Matsugae Cave, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan". Historical Biology. 33 (4). doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1604699.
^ Antoine, P. O. (2003). "Middle Miocene elasmotheriine Rhinocerotidae from China and Mongolia: Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships". Zoologica Scripta. 32 (2): 95. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00106.x.

Groves, Colin P., and Fred Kurt (1972). "Dicerorhinus sumatrensis". Mammalian Species (21): 1–6.
"A new species of Dicerorhinus (Rhinocerotidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Myanmar"

[1] Mays, Herman L.; Hung, Chih-Ming; Shaner, Pei-Jen; Denvir, James; Justice, Megan; Yang, Shang-Fang; Roth, Terri L.; Oehler, David A.; Fan, Jun; Rekulapally, Swanthana; Primerano, Donald A. (January 2018). "Genomic Analysis of Demographic History and Ecological Niche Modeling in the Endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis". Current Biology. 28 (1): 70–76.e4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.021. PMC 5894340. PMID 29249659.

[2] Tong, Hao-wen (November 2012). "Evolution of the non-Coelodonta dicerorhine lineage in China". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (8): 555–562. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.002.

[tong-3] Tong, Hao-wen (2012). "Evolution of the non-Coelodonta dicerorhine lineage in China". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (8): 555–562. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.002.

[4] Handa, N.; Kohno, N.; Kudo, Y. (2019). "Reappraisal of a middle Pleistocene rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Matsugae Cave, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan". Historical Biology. 33 (4). doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1604699.

[5] Antoine, P. O. (2003). "Middle Miocene elasmotheriine Rhinocerotidae from China and Mongolia: Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships". Zoologica Scripta. 32 (2): 95. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00106.x.

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