Hippopotamus guldbergi Fovet, Faure & Guérin, 2011

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: Holocene

Distribution

Madagascar

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Fovet, W., Faure, M. and Guérin C. (2011). Hippopotamus guldbergi n. sp.: revision of the status of Hippopotamus madagascariensis Guldberg, 1883, after more than a century of misunderstanding and taxonomical confusions. Zoosystema 33(1):61-82. [Abstract]

Other references:

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Rasolofomanana, Nadia, Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa, Schwartz, Joshua, Lenczewski, Melissa and Samonds, Karen E. (2025). Factors influencing the preservation of subfossil vertebrates from Tsaramody, Madagascar and the potential role of hot springs. Madamines 1: 27 pp.

Samonds, Karen E. et al. (2019). A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody, Sambaina basin, central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar’s Central Highlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 34(6): 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3096

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