Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 (hippo)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae

Alternative combination: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon) amphibius

Synonym: Hippopotamus incognitus Faure 1984

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 Hippopotamus according to E. Weston and J.-R. Boisserie 2010

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Arambourg 1979, Coryndon 1977, Falconer and Cautley 1836, Geraads et al. 2004, Geze 1985, Linnaeus 1758, Peters 1990, Petronio 1995 and Thomas 1911

Sister taxa: Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon), Hippopotamus aethiopicus, Hippopotamus afarensis, Hippopotamus antiquus, Hippopotamus behemoth, Hippopotamus coryndonae, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Hippopotamus gorgops, Hippopotamus kaisensis, Hippopotamus karumensis, Hippopotamus laloumena, Hippopotamus lemerlei, Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Hippopotamus major, Hippopotamus meltensis, Hippopotamus minor, Hippopotamus protamphibius, Hippopotamus sirensis

Ecology: amphibious grazer-browser

Average measurements (in mm): femur diameter 53.0, humerus diameter 50.1, radius diameter 38.8, tibia diameter 66.5

Estimated body mass: 685.4 kg based on femur diameter, humerus diameter, and tibia diameter

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (8), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (3), Egypt (33), Ethiopia (5), France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (5), Greece (8), Israel (3), Italy (4), Kenya (9), Morocco (1), Niger (3), South Africa (21), Spain (7), Sudan (7), Tanzania (4), the United Kingdom (41), Zambia (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (1), France (1)

• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)

• Pliocene of South Africa (1)

Total: 173 collections including 174 occurrences

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