Rhinoceros sondaicus

Rhinocerote del Java (Rhinocerote Sunda con plus precise) o Rhinoceros sondaicus

Rango taxinomic

• genere

Supertaxones

• regnum = Animalia
• phylum = Chordata
• classis = Mammalia
• ordo = Perissodactyla
• familia = Rhinocerotidae
• genus = Rhinocerote

Es membro de la familia Rhinocerotidae e uno de cincue variante de rhinocerotes. Ille pertiner a Rhinocerote del India e ha 3.1–3.2 m in longitude e 1.4–1.7 m in alta. Ille corno es cerca 25 cm, minor de altre species de rhinocerote.

Comparision de DNA mitochondrial presenta que le ancestores de rhinocerotes modern ha scindate de le ancestores de Equidae 50 milliones anos in passato.^[1]

Le plus optimistic estimate presenta que exista no multe de 100 rhinocerotes del Java in salvage.^[2][3]

Le Rhinocerote del Java ha rangiate de le isla de Indonesia, a India e China. Le specie es ora in periculo critic, con due populationes in salvage, e nulle in zoo. Ille es le plus rare mammal grande on terra.^[4] Un population de 40–50 vive in Parco National Ujung Kulon super le isla de Java in Indonesia e un minor population, estimate in 2007 a 8, supervive in Parco National Cat Tien in Vietnam.

Ujung Kulon

Le Ujung Kulon peninsula esseva devastate de le eruption de Krakatoa in 1883. Le Rhinocerotes del Java recolonized le peninsula dupo le explosion.^[5]

• Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus
• Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis (extinct)
• Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus

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  Rhinocerote del Indian Rhinoceros

• Javan Rhino Info Archived 2011-01-20 at the Wayback Machine & Javan Rhino Pictures Archived 2007-12-09 at the Wayback Machine on the Rhino Resource Center
• International Rhino Foundation dedicated to the conservation of rhinos: Javan Rhino Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
• ARKive - images and movies of the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• UNEP & WCMC Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine species sheet on the Javan Rhinoceros.