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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