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SPECIES Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
Author: | G. Fischer [von Waldheim], 1814. | Citation: | Zoognosia, 3: 301. | Common Name: | Sumatran Rhinoceros | Type Locality: | "Sumatra", now known to be Indonesia, Sumatra, Bencoolen (= Bintuhan) Dist., Fort Marlborough (Groves, 1967c). | Distribution: | Formerly Bangladesh (Chittagong Hills), Borneo, Burma, India (Assam), Laos, Malaysia (peninsular Malaya), Mergui Isl, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam; probably also S China, and Cambodia. Survives in Tenasserim Range (Thailand-Burma), Petchabun Range (Thailand), and other scattered localities in Burma, peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as D. s. lasiotis, Critically Endangered as D. s. harrisoni and D. s. sumatrensis. | Comments: | Reviewed by Groves and Kurt (1972, Mammalian Species, 21). Revised by Groves (1967c). |
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