Diceros bicornis bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758:56)
Southern black rhino(ceros), South-western black rhino(ceros), Cape rhino(ceros)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: africanus (Blumenbach, 1797); camperi (Schinz, 1845); capensis (Gray, 1868); capensis (Trouessart, 1898); gordoni (Lesson, 1842); keitloa (A. Smith, 1836); ketloa (A. Smith, 1837); niger (Schinz, 1845); platyceros (Brandt, 1878); plesioceros (Brandt, 1878)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c.1800-1850
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Linnaeus, Carolus. (1758). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis. Stockholm, Sweden.
Other references:
Hillman-Smith, A. K. K. and Groves, Colin P. (1994). Diceros bicornis. Mammalian Species (American Society of Mammalogists) 455: 1-8.
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]