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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Hippopotamidae
--> GENUS Hexaprotodon
SPECIES Hexaprotodon liberiensis
Author: | Morton, 1849. | Citation: | J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, 1: 232. | Common Name: | Pygmy Hippopotamus | Type Locality: | Liberia, "the river St. Pauls, a stream that rises in the mountains of Guinea, and passing through the Dey country and Liberia, empties into the Atlantic to the north of Cape Messurado". | Distribution: | Sierra Leone to Côte d’Ivoire; SC Nigeria (extinct?). | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Critically Endangered D1 as H. l. heslopi, otherwise Vulnerable. | Comments: | First described as Hippopotamus minor Morton, 1844 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2:14). |
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