Diceros
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| Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Tribe: | Dicerotini |
| Genus: | Diceros Gray, 1821 |
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Diceros is a genus of rhinoceros containing the living black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and at least one extinct species.[1]
Taxonomy[]
Diceros is generally believed to have branched off from an early species of Ceratotherium, specifically C. neumayri.[2] However an even older species than C. neumayri from the Miocene has been placed in Diceros (). D. praecox is considered the direct ancestor of the black rhinoceros.
References[]
- ^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 679. ISBN 9780520257214.
- ^ Geraads, Denis (2005). "Pliocene Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from Hadar and Dikka (Lower Awash, Ethiopia), and a revision of the origin of modern African rhinos" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (2): 451–461. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0451:PRMFHA]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4524458.
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- Rhinoceroses
- Mammal genera
- Mammal genera with one living species
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Taxa described in 1821
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