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Choeropsis liberiensis
Taxonomy
Hippopotamus liberiensis was named by Morton (1844). It is extant. It is the type species of Choeropsis.
It was recombined as Hexaprotodon liberiensis by Coryndon (1977) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); it was recombined as Choeropsis liberiensis by Leidy (1853), Boisserie (2005) and Weston and Boisserie (2010).
It was recombined as Hexaprotodon liberiensis by Coryndon (1977) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); it was recombined as Choeropsis liberiensis by Leidy (1853), Boisserie (2005) and Weston and Boisserie (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1844 | Hippopotamus liberiensis Morton |
| 1853 | Choeropsis liberiensis Leidy |
| 1977 | Hexaprotodon liberiensis Coryndon p. 70 figs. Fig. 6 |
| 2005 | Choeropsis liberiensis Boisserie p. 15 |
| 2008 | Hexaprotodon liberiensis Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Choeropsis liberiensis Weston and Boisserie p. 856 |
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Choeropsis liberiensis Morton 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999 | |||||