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.

 

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Dicerorhinus sumatrensis lasiotis Buckland, 1872:89

Northern Sumatran rhinoceros, Northern hairy rhinoceros, Hairy-eared Sumatran rhinoceros, Chittagong rhinoceros

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Rhinoceros lasiotis Buckland, 1872:89

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1900 or later

IUCN RedList status: "Probably Extinct"

 

Distribution

Bangaldesh, Bhutan, Northern Burma (Myanmar), India (just eastern Pakistan?) (and Thailand?)

 

NB: The exact former geographic distribution of this subspecies is uncertain as different sources give the distribution as being composed of different countries.

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

Above: Jackson, a young male at London Zoo. Photographer unknown, dated 1903-1905. Published in Edwards (1996). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

Above: Begum (the holotype), an old female at London Zoo. Photographer unknown, dated c.1890. Published in Edwards (1996:124). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

Other photos can be found in (Edwards, 1996).

 

References

Original scientific description:

Buckland, F. (1872). A new rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. Land and  Water, August 10, 1872: 89 .

 

Other references:

Baird, I. G. (1995). Lao PDR: an overview of traditional medicines derived from wild animals and plants. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.

Brandt, Jessica R. et al. (2018). Genetic structure and diversity among historic and modern populations of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Journal of Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy019 [Abstract]

Choudhury, Anwaruddin U. (1997). The status of the Sumatran rhinoceros in north-eastern India. Oryx 31(2): 151-152.

Choudhury, Anwaruddin U. (2003). The Mammals of Arunachal Pradesh. New Delhi: Regency Publications.

Choudhury, Anwaruddin U. (2005). A new historic record of the Sumatran rhinoceros in north-eastern India. Pachyderm 39: 91-92, figs. 1-2

Choudhury, Anwaruddin U. (2013). The Mammals of North East India. Guwahati: Gibbon Books & Rhino Foundation. 432 pp.

Corbett, G. B. and Hill, J. E. (1992). The Mammals of the Indomalayan Region: A Systematic Review. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

David-Beaulieu, A. (1944). Les oiseaux du Tranninh. Hanoi: Université Indochinoise.

de Monestrol, H. (1952). Chasses et faune d’Indochine. Saigon: Portail.

Delacour, J. (1940). Liste provisoire des mammifères de l’Indochine française. Mammalia 4: 20-29, 46-58.

Deuve, J. (1972). Les mammifères du Laos. Vientiane: Ministère de l’éducation nationale.

Duckworth, J. W. and Hedges, S. (1998). A review of the status of Tiger, Asian Elephant, Gaur and Banteng in Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia and Yunnan (China), with recommendations for future conservation action. Hanoi: WWF Indochina Programme.

Edwards, John. (1996). London Zoo from Old Photographs: 1852-1914. London: John Edwards. 240 pp.

Groves, Colin P. (1967).  On the rhinoceroses of South-East Asia. Säugertierk. Mitt. 15: 221-237.

Groves, Colin P. and Kurt, Fred. (1972). Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Mammalian Species 21: 1-6, 4 figs.

Harper, F. (1940). The nomenclature and type localities of certain old world mammals. Journal of  Mammalogy 21: 191 -203.

Khan, M. (1989). Asian Rhinos: An Action Plan For Their Conservation. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.

Lander, Brian and Brunson, Katherine. (2018). The Sumatran rhinoceros was extirpated from mainland East Asia by hunting and habitat loss. Current Biology 28(6): R252-R253. [Abstract]

Lydekker, Richard (1900). The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet. Asian Educational Services.

Martin, E. B. (1992). The trade and uses of wildlife products in Laos. TRAFFIC Bull. 13: 23-28.

Martin, E. B. and Vigne, L. (1991). The horn quintet. BBC Wildlife 9(5): 356-357.

Milroy, A. J. W. (1934). The preservation of wildlife in India. No. 3, Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37(suppl.): 97-104.

Rabinowitz, A., Schaller, G. and Uga, U. (1995). A survey to assess the status of the Sumatran rhinoceros and other large mammal species in Tamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar. Oryx 29: 123-128.

Robichaud, W. G. (1998). WCS trip report: Bolikhamxay Saola survey, 15-24 January 1998. Vientiane: WCS.

Rookmaaker, Kees. (1980). The distribution of the rhinoceros in eastern India, Bangladesh, China, and the Indo-Chinese region. Zool. Anz., Jena 205: 253-268.

Rookmaaker, L. C. (1984). The taxonomic history of the recent forms of Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 57 (1): 12-25.

Rookmaaker, Kees. (2003). Historic records of the Sumatran rhinoceros in north-east India. The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India Newsletter 5: 11-12.

Rookmaaker, Kees. (2019). Mauled by a rhinoceros: the final years of Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1824) in India. Zoosystema 41(14): 259-267.

Sclater,  P. L.,  1872a. Notes on Bopithems  bicolor and Rhinoceros lasiotis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)  10: 298-299.

Sclater,  P. L. (1872b). [On Rhinoceros lasiotis.] Attenaeum, August 24,1872: 243.

Sclater,  P. L. (1872c). Rhinoceroses. Nature, 5: 426-428,2  figs.

Sclater,  P. L. (1872d). The new rhinoceros. Nature, 6: 518-51  9.

Sclater,  P. L. (1872e).  [Announcement  of the  addition to the Society's collection of  a female Sumatran rhinoceros.]  Proceedings  of  the Zoological Society of  London,  1872: 185.

Sclater,  P. L. (1872f). A new Asiatic rhinoceros. Popular Science Refew,  1 1 :432.

Sclater,  P. L. 1873. On a new  rhinoceros, with remarks on the recent species of this genus and their distribution. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of science 42(3): 140.

Talukdar, N.R., Choudhury, P., Barbhuiya, R. A., Ahmad, F., Daolagupu, D. and Baishya, J. B. (2021). Mammals of northeastern India: an updated checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(4): 18059-18098. doi: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6010.13.4.18059-18098

van Strien, N.J., Manullang, B., Sectionov, Isnan, W., Khan, M.K.M, Sumardja, E., Ellis, S., Han, K.H., Boeadi, Payne, J. & Bradley Martin, E. (2008). Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 October 2011.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/16866/dicerorhinus-sumatrensis-lasiotis-northern-sumatran

 

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Dicerorhinus sumatrensis eugenei Sody, 1946:151

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

 

Distribution

Sumatra, Indonesia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Sody, H. J. V. (1946). Prehistoric and fossil rhinoceroses of the Malay Archipelago and India, by D. A. Hooyer. Naturwet. Tidjschr. Ned. Indie 102: 151.

 

Other references:

Groves, Colin P. (1967). On the rhinoceroses of southeast Asia. Säugetierk Mitt. 15: 221-237.

Groves, Colin P. and Kurt, Fred. (1972). Dicerorhinus sumatrensis. Mammalian Species 21: 1-6, 4 figs.

 

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Coelodonta antiquitatis antiquitatis Blumenbach, 1799

Woolly rhino(ceros)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Coelodonta antiguitatis Blumenbach, 1799 [orth. error used by (Dong et al., 1999:130)]; Rhinoceros tichorhinus Cuvier, 1812; Rhinoceros manchuricus Ishijima, 1939; Gryphus antiquitatus Blumenbach, 1799; Coelodonta jacuticus Russanov, 1968; Coelodonta antiquitatis pristinus; Coelodonta antiquitatis humilis

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Eurasia

 

An isolated record from the Holocene of China exists (Chia & Wei, 1980). However, it has not been widely accepted.

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

UHMP 43 (nasal horn)

 

Media

 

 

References

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Álvarez-Lao, Diego J. and García, Nuria. (2011). Southern dispersal and Palaeoecological implications of woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis): review of the Iberian occurrences. Quaternary Science Reviews 30(15-16): 2002-2017. [Abstract]

Irena Axmanová, Jan Robovský, Lubomír Tichý, Jiří Danihelka, Elena Troeva, Albert Protopopov and Milan Chytrý. (2020). Habitats of Pleistocene megaherbivores reconstructed from the frozen fauna remains. Ecography 43: 1-11.

Belyaev, Ruslan I. et al. (2023). A new discovery in the permafrost of Yakutia sheds light on the nasal horn morphology of the woolly rhinoceros. Journal of Morphology 284(9): e21626. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21626

Bestwick, Jordan and Smith, Adam S. (2015). Creswell Crags fossil material in the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall, UK. The Geological Curator 10(4): 181-192.

BOCHEŃSKI, Z. 1982. Aves. In: Kozlowski, J. (ed.) Excavation in the Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). Final Report, Warszawa, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, pp. 31-38.

Boeskorov GG, Lazarev P, Sher A et al. (2010). Complex study of the Kolyma woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis, Blum, 1799). Quaternaire 3: 180-181.

Boeskorov, Gennady G., Lazarev, P. A., Sher, A. V. et al. (2011). Woolly rhino discovery in the lower Kolyma River. Quaternary Science Reviews 30(17-18) 2262-2272. [Abstract]

Boev, Zlatozar N. (2017). Fossil records of Rhinoceroses (Rhinocerotoidea Gray, 1821), Chalicotheres (Chalicotherioidea Gill, 1872) and Brontotheres (Brontotherioidea (Marsh, 1873) (Peryssodactyla Owen, 1848 - Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758) in Bulgaria. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum - Plovdiv 2: 1-7.

Boger, Ulf et al. (2014). New Insights Gained from the Faunal Material Recovered During the Latest Excavations at Vogelherd Cave. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 23: 57-81.

Borsuk-Bialynicka, M. (1973). Studies on the Pleistocene rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatus (Blumenbach). Palaeontologica Polonica 29: 1-95.

Brandt, J. F. von. (1849). De rhinocerotis antiquitatus seu tichorhini seu pallasii structura externa et osteologica observationes  e reliquiis quae in museis Petropolitanis servantur erutae. Académie Impériale  des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, Mémoires Sér 6(5): 161-416.

Buckland, William. (1823). Reliquiae Diluvianae; or observations on organic remains attesting to the action of an Universal Deluge. John Murray. London. 303 pp.

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Chia, L. P. and Wei, Q. (1980). Some animal fossils from the Holocene in N. China. Verterb. PalAsiatica 18(4): 327-333. (in Chinese with English summary) [a possible Holocene record of C. antiquitatus]

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Diedrich, Cajus G. (2006). By ice age spotted hyenas protracted, cracked, nibbled and chewed skeleton remains of Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1807) from the Lower Weichselian (Upper Pleistocene) open air prey deposit site Bad Wildungen-Biedensteg (Hessia, NW Germany). Journal of Taphonomy 4(4): 173-205.

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