Dicerorhinus
Dicerorhinus Temporal range:
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Rapunzel, a Sumatran Rhino in the Bronx Zoo | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
Tribe: | Dicerorhinini |
Genus: | Dicerorhinus Gloger, 1841 |
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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]
- 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"
Categories:
- Rhinoceroses
- Mammal genera
- Mammal genera with one living species