Hippopotamidae
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| Hippopotamidae | |
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| Common hippopotamus | |
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| Pygmy hippopotamus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Faimily: | Hippopotamidae Gray, 1821 |
| Subtaxa | |
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†Trilobophorous Geze, 1985 Hippopotaminae Gray, 1821 †Kenyapotaminae Pickford, 1983 | |
Hippopotamuses are stout, nakit-skinned, an amphibious artiodactyl members (an the anly livin members) o the faimily Hippopotamidae possessin three-chambered painchs an walkin on fower taes on each fit. While thay resemmle pigs pheesiologically an are pseudoruminants lik caumels, thair closest livin relatives are actually the cetaceans (whauls an dowphins).
Thare are twa livin species o hippopotamus in twa genera; the pygmy hippo, Choeropsis liberiensis o the forests o wast Africae, an the common hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius.