Hippopotamus madagascariensis Guldberg, 1883
Madagascan dwarf hippopotamus, Madagascan pygmy hippo, Malagasy hippo
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hippopotamus guldbergi Fovet, Faure & Guérin, 2011
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Boisserie, J.-R. (2016). Hippopotamus madagascariensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T40783A90128828. Downloaded on 23 July 2016.
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Faure, M., Guérin, C. and Ohler, A.-M. (2015). Le statut du nom Hippopotamus madagascariensis Guldberg, 1883. Réponse à Rakotovao et al. 2014. Geodiversitas 37: 267-269.
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Huminsky, Isabella. (2017). The Discovery of Extinct Hippopotami Fossils in Anjohibe Cave. Thesis, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 11 pp.
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Pandolfi, Luca et al. (2020). Investigating ecological and phylogenetic constraints in Hippopotamidae skull shape. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafi (Research in Paleontology and Stratigraphy) 126(1): 37-49.
Raybaud. (1902). Rapport de M. I'administrateur Raybaud sur les gisements fossiliferes d'Ampasambazimba. Bulletin de l'Academie Malgache 1(2): 64-67.
Stuenes, S. (1989). Taxonomy, habits, and relationships of the subfossil Madagascan hippopotami Hippopotamus lemerlei and H. madagascariensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3): 241-268.
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