Pygmy hippopotamus
| Pygmy hippopotamus | |
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| Pygmy hippopotamus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Faimily: | Hippopotamidae |
| Genus: | Choeropsis |
| Species: | C. liberiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Choeropsis liberiensis/Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Disputed) | |
| Subspecies | |
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C. l. liberiensis | |
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| Range cairt[1] | |
The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is a smaw hippopotamid which is native tae the forests an swamps o Wast Africae, primarily in Liberie wi smaw populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, an Ivory Coast.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- 1 2 Lewison, R.; Oliver, W. (IUCN SSC Hippo Specialist Subgroup) (2008). "Hexaprotodon liberiensis". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 17 December 2006. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of endangered. - ↑ "ITIS on Hexaprotodon liberiensis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2004.