HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Gray, 1821

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 210

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n2a3

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scientific name

HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Gray, 1821
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Family HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Gray, 1821 View in CoL

Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Reported by Roure (1966) to occur in Togo.

VOUCHERS. — Eleven vouchers are deposited in the ZMB. These vouchers originated from Atakpamé, Akposso, Sokodé, and Kete- Kratschi (now in Ghana).

ORIGINAL DATA. — About 300-500 individuals are reported for Togo ( Mallon et al. 2015), where it is still found only at Kéran NP and Togodo GR ( Mallon et al. 2015). Three concentration areas of this species are known in Togo: hippopotamus ponds in Sansanné- Mango, Nangbeto dam and Afito ponds.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Hippopotamidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Hippopotamidae

Genus

Hippopotamus

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