Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 308-311 : 310-311

Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817) . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 97.

TYPE LOCALITY: Botswana, Makuba Range, Chue Spring (about 26° 15' S, 23° 10' E) .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly much of N.W. Africa; Nile Valley; C. Africa between Lake Chad and White Nile River; perhaps portions of E. Africa; S. Africa south of the Zambezi River (except in W. Zambia, where it perhaps occurred between the Mashi and Zambezia rivers), south to Orange River, and west to E. Namibia. Survives mostly as scattered populations in reserves in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Zaire, and S. Sudan. Extinct in N. W. Africa and lower Nile Valley.

COMMENT: Reviewed by Groves, 1972, Mamm. Species, 8: 1 -6. Revised by Groves, 1975, Saugetierk. Mitt., 23:200-212.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Rhinocerotidae . CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. s. cottoni subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301418003001001001.