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Hippopotamus (hippo)
Taxonomy
Hippopotamus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was assigned to Bellua by Linnaeus (1758); to Hippopotamina by Gray (1825); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848); to Hippopotamidae by Carroll (1988), Stuenes (1989), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Thewissen et al. (2001), Boisserie (2005), Burney et al. (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Hippopotaminae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Boisserie et al. (2005), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010), Boisserie et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Bellua by Linnaeus (1758); to Hippopotamina by Gray (1825); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848); to Hippopotamidae by Carroll (1988), Stuenes (1989), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), Thewissen et al. (2001), Boisserie (2005), Burney et al. (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Hippopotaminae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Boisserie et al. (2005), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010), Boisserie et al. (2011).
Species
H. (Tetraprotodon), H. aethiopicus, H. afarensis, H. amphibius (syn. H. incognitus), H. antiquus (syn. H. tiberinus), H. behemoth, H. coryndonae, H. creutzburgi, H. gorgops, H. kaisensis, H. karumensis, H. laloumena, H. lemerlei (syn. H. leptorhynchus), H. madagascariensis, H. major, H. meltensis, H. minor, H. protamphibius, H. sirensis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Hippopotamus Linnaeus p. 74 |
| 1825 | Hippopotamus Gray p. 343 |
| 1848 | Hippopotamus Owen p. 139 |
| 1985 | Trilobophorus Geze |
| 1988 | Hippopotamus Carroll |
| 1989 | Hippopotamus Stuenes p. 243 |
| 1995 | Hippopotamus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 248 |
| 1997 | Hippopotamus McKenna and Bell p. 399 |
| 1997 | Trilobophorus McKenna and Bell p. 399 |
| 2001 | Hippopotamus Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2005 | Hippopotamus Boisserie p. 19 |
| 2005 | Hippopotamus Boisserie et al. |
| 2008 | Hippopotamus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2008 | Hippopotamus Burney et al. p. 19 |
| 2010 | Hippopotamus Orliac et al. p. 11873 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Hippopotamus Weston and Boisserie p. 858 |
| 2011 | Hippopotamus Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
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G. Hippopotamus Linnaeus 1758 [hippo]
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†Hexaprotodon protamphibius turkanensis Geze 1985
Subg. †Hippopotamus (Tetraprotodon) Falconer and Cautley 1836
†Hippopotamus aethiopicus Coryndon and Coppens 1975
†Hippopotamus afarensis Geze 1985
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 [hippo]
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Invalid names: Hippopotamus incognitus Faure 1984 [synonym]
†Hippopotamus antiquus Desmarest 1822
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Invalid names: Hippopotamus tiberinus Mazza 1991 [synonym]
†Hippopotamus behemoth Faure 1986
†Hippopotamus coryndonae Geze 1985
†Hippopotamus creutzburgi Boekschoten and Sondaar 1966
†Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus Kuss 1975
†Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928
†Hippopotamus kaisensis Hopwood 1926
†Hippopotamus karumensis Coryndon 1977
†Hippopotamus laloumena Faure and Guerin 1990
†Hippopotamus lemerlei Milne Edwards 1868
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Invalid names: Hippopotamus leptorhynchus Grandidier and Filhol 1894 [synonym]
†Hippopotamus madagascariensis Guldberg 1883
†Hippopotamus major Cuvier 1824
†Hippopotamus meltensis Major 1902
†Hippopotamus minor Desmarest 1822
†Hippopotamus protamphibius Arambourg 1944
†Hippopotamus sirensis Pomel 1896
Invalid names: Hippopotamus amphibius standini Monnier and Lamberton 1922 [nomen nudum], Trilobophorus Geze 1985 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available