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Choeropsis (pygmy hippo)
Taxonomy
Choeropsis was named by Leidy (1853). It is extant. Its type is Choeropsis liberiensis.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hexaprotodon by Coryndon (1977).
It was assigned to Hippopotamidae by Boisserie (2005); and to Hippopotaminae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hexaprotodon by Coryndon (1977).
It was assigned to Hippopotamidae by Boisserie (2005); and to Hippopotaminae by Boisserie et al. (2005), Boisserie et al. (2010), Orliac et al. (2010), Weston and Boisserie (2010) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
Species
C. liberiensis (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1853 | Choeropsis Leidy |
| 2005 | Choeropsis Boisserie p. 15 |
| 2005 | Choeropsis Boisserie et al. |
| 2010 | Choeropsis Boisserie et al. p. 329 |
| 2010 | Choeropsis Orliac et al. p. 11873 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Choeropsis Weston and Boisserie p. 855 |
| 2011 | Choeropsis Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||