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Sooth-wastren black rhinoceros

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Sooth-wastren black rhinoceros
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Faimily: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Diceros
Species: D. bicornis
Subspecies: D. b. occidentalis
Trinomial name
Diceros bicornis occidentalis
(Zukowsky, 1922)
Teep strain
ZMH 40056[2]

The sooth-wastren black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis occidentalis) is a subspecies o the black rhinoceros, livin in soothwastren Africae (northren Namibie an soothren Angolae, introducit tae Sooth Africae). It is currently leetit as vulnerable bi the IUCN. The biggest threat towards the subspecies Diceros bicornis occidentalis is illegal poachin.[1]

References

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  1. a b "Diceros bicornis ssp. bicornis". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. 2011. Retrieved 18 Januar 2012. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |last-author-amp= (help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Zukowsky, L. (1922). "Vorläufige Mitteilung über eine neue Art des Spitzschnautz-Nashorns aus Südwest-Afrika" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 88A (7): 162–163.[deid airtin]