Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 185

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930843

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE43-FFD5-9F4B-FD79FAE50114

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822
status

 

309. Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822 View in CoL

Common name: Javan Rhinoceros

Myanmar name:

Distribution: This species once distributed in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and probably Southern China through peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra and Java in the mid nineteenth century ( Groves 1967). In Myanmar, formerly distributed in Southern Myanmar and the last known record is two individuals that occurred in Dawei Township area on the Myanmar-Thailand border in 1962.

Remarks: This species is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN and a completely protected species of Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Rhinocerotidae

SubFamily

Rhinocerotinae

Genus

Rhinoceros

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