Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus, 1758

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 369-372 : 372

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Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus, 1758
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Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam Terai .

DISTRIBUTION: Within the present millenium, Indus Valley ( Pakistan) east in N India to Assam and perhaps N Burma. Survives in India (Assam, West Bengal), Nepal and possibly N Burma.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: asiaticus , indicus , jamrachii, stenocephalus .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Laurie et al. (1983, Mammalian Species, 211).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Rhinocerotidae

Genus

Rhinoceros

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Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus, 1758

Peter Grubb 1993
1993
Loc

Rhinoceros unicornis

Linnaeus 1758: 56
1758
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