Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 629-636 : 634

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11330628

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scientific name

Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1817)
status

 

Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1817) View in CoL

[Rhinoceros] simus Burchell 1817 View in CoL , Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris: 97.

Type Locality: "L'interior de l'Afrique Méridionale vers le vingt-sixième degré de latitude"; since identified as South Africa, North West Prov., Chue Spring (= Heuningvlei), about 26°15'S, 23°10'E. See Grubb (1999). GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: White Rhinoceros.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Ceratotherium simum subsp. simum Burchell 1817

Subspecies Ceratotherium simum subsp. cottoni Lydekker 1908

Distribution: Formerly north of Equator in S Chad, Central African Republic, S Sudan, NE Dem. Rep. Congo, and Uganda. Southern Africa in SE Angola, Botswana, NE Namibia, S Mozambique, South Africa (north of Orange-Vaal Rivers and in KwaZulu-Natal), Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and possibly also SW Zambia. Now much restricted in distribution; in south of range, extinct except in E KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa), but reintroduced into other parts of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo Prov., Mpumalanga, Free State), Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Botswana; introduced into Zambia and Kenya. In north of range, now confined to NE Dem. Rep. Congo.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II as C. s. simum ; otherwise Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered as C. s. cottoni ; IUCN – Critically Endangered as C. s. cottoni, Near Threatened as C. s. simum .

Discussion: Reviewed by Groves (1972 a, Mammalian Species, 8). Revised by Groves (1975 b).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Rhinocerotidae

Genus

Ceratotherium

Loc

Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Rhinoceros] simus

Burchell 1817: 97
1817
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