Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 (black rhinoceros)

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

Alternative combination: Rhinoceros bicornis

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Diceros according to T. Deng et al. 2011

See also Antoine et al. 2010, Gray 1821, Linnaeus 1758, Lu 2013 and Thomas 1911

Sister taxa: none

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ethiopia (18 collections), Kenya (15), South Africa (13), Sudan (1), Tanzania (5)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Kenya (1), Malawi (1), Uganda (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (9), Kenya (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Uganda (8)

Total: 82 collections each including a single occurrence

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