Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 629-636 : 636

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scientific name	Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822
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Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest 1822 , Mammalogie, in: Encycl. Meth., Vol. 2: 399.

Type Locality: " Sumatra " ( Indonesia), later corrected to " Java " ( Indonesia).

Vernacular Names: Javan Rhinoceros.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. sondaicus Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. annamiticus Heude 1892

Subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus subsp. inermis Lesson 1838

Distribution: Formerly Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and probably S China through peninsular Malaya to Sumatra and Java. Survives in Ujung Kulon (W Java) and in Vietnam; perhaps in small areas of Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Revised by Groves (1967 c). The type was said to have been obtained by Diard and Duvaucel who were thought to have collected together only on Sumatra, not Java ( Sody, 1946) but Rookmaaker (1983) showed that Java is correctly the type locality.