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Hexaprotodon (pygmy hippo)
Taxonomy
Hexaprotodon was named by Falconer and Cautley (1836).
It was reranked as Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon) by Falconer and Cautley (1836).
It was assigned to Hippopotamus by Falconer and Cautley (1836); to Hippopotaminae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Weston (2000), Boisserie et al. (2003), Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011); and to Hippopotamidae by Coryndon (1977), Gaziry (1987), Carroll (1988), Thewissen et al. (2001), Boisserie (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Siddiq et al. (2016).
It was reranked as Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon) by Falconer and Cautley (1836).
It was assigned to Hippopotamus by Falconer and Cautley (1836); to Hippopotaminae by McKenna and Bell (1997), Weston (2000), Boisserie et al. (2003), Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011); and to Hippopotamidae by Coryndon (1977), Gaziry (1987), Carroll (1988), Thewissen et al. (2001), Boisserie (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Siddiq et al. (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1836 | Hexaprotodon Falconer and Cautley p. 51 |
| 1836 | Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon) Falconer and Cautley p. 51 |
| 1977 | Hexaprotodon Coryndon p. 73 |
| 1987 | Hexaprotodon Gaziry p. 309 |
| 1988 | Hexaprotodon Carroll |
| 1997 | Hexaprotodon McKenna and Bell p. 399 |
| 2000 | Hexaprotodon Weston p. 177 |
| 2001 | Hexaprotodon Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2003 | Hexaprotodon Boisserie et al. p. 16 |
| 2005 | Hexaprotodon Boisserie p. 18 |
| 2005 | Hexaprotodon Boisserie et al. |
| 2008 | Hexaprotodon Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Hexaprotodon Boisserie et al. p. 328 |
| 2010 | Hexaprotodon Orliac et al. p. 11873 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Hexaprotodon Weston and Boisserie p. 857 |
| 2011 | Hexaprotodon Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Hexaprotodon Siddiq et al. p. 2581 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Hexaprotodon Falconer and Cautley 1836 [pygmy hippo]
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†Hexaprotodon aethiopicus Coryndon and Coppens 1975
†Hexaprotodon bruneti Boisserie and White 2004
†Hexaprotodon coryndoni Geze 1985
†Hexaprotodon crusafonti Aguire 1963
†Hexaprotodon dissimilis Falconer and Cautley 1836
†Hexaprotodon dulu Boisserie 2004
†Hexaprotodon garyam Boisserie et al. 2005
†Hexaprotodon imaguncula Hopwood 1926
†Hexaprotodon iravticus Falconer and Cautley 1847
†Hexaprotodon mingoz Boisserie et al. 2003
†Hexaprotodon namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847
†Hexaprotodon palaeindicus Falconer and Cautley 1847
†Hexaprotodon pantanellii Joleaud 1920
†Hexaprotodon primaevus Crusafont et al. 1964
†Hexaprotodon sahabiensis Gaziry 1987
†Hexaprotodon shungurensis Geze 1985
†Hexaprotodon siculus Hooijer 1946
†Hexaprotodon sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1836
†Hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon) hipponensis Gaudry 1867
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available