Hippopotamidae
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Name (Hebrew)
היפופוטמיים
Name (Latin)
Hippopotamidae
Name (Arabic)
برنيقيات
Other forms of name
Hippopotami
Hippopotamuses
Hippos
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Artiodactyla
Pachyderms
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q213336
Library of congress:
sh 94007230
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Pigs, peccaries, and hippos, c1993:p. 41 ("The hippos, family Hippopotamidae, are separated from all other suiformes in the superfamily Anthracotheroidea. All Holocene or Recent hippos belong to two genera, Hexaprotodon (Choeropsis) and Hippopotamus. Only one species of each of these is usually recognized, but three more species became extinct within the Holocene on Madagascar.")
- Mammal species of the world, 1993:pp. 380-381 (Family Hippopotamidae. Two genera, Hexaprotodon and Hippopotamus)
- Walker mam. world:v. 2, pp. 1185-1187 (Family Hippopotamidae, Hippopotamuses. "This family of two Recent genera, each with a single species, originally occurred in suitable habitat throughout Africa south of the Sahara, and all along the Nile River. The two genera, Hippopotamus and Choeropsis, differ greatly in size ...")
- Corbet, G.B. A world list of mammalian species, 1991:p. 126 (Family Hippopotamidae, hippopotamuses)
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Wikipedia description:
Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans. They are formally referred to as hippopotamids. There are two living species of hippopotamid in two genera; the pygmy hippo, Choeropsis liberiensis of the forests of west Africa, and the common hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius. The term hippopotamus can also be applied to hippopotamids in general, although it is most frequently used for the common hippo and its respective genus.
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