Diceros bicornis (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

Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly in suitable open habitats in Africa south of about 10°N from N Nigeria, Chad, S Sudan and N Somalia, and from Angola, south to Cape Province ( South Africa). Very much reduced in numbers this century, particularly in recent decades, and probably now extinct in many countries which it formerly occupied. Survives in reserves in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Zululand ( South Africa), and possibly still in Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola and Botswana; widely reintroduced into parts of South Africa ( Cumming et al., 1990).

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

SYNONYMS: africanus , angolensis, atbarensis, brucii , comperi, capensis , chobiensis, gordoni , holmwoodi, keitloa , ladoensis, longipes, major , michaeli, minor, niger , occidentalis , palustris, platyceros, plesioceros, punyana, rendilis, somaliensis.

COMMENTS: Revised by Groves (1967b).