Pygmy hippopotamus

Pygmy hippopotamus
Pygmy hippopotamus
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Faimily:	Hippopotamidae
Genus:	Choeropsis
Species:	C. liberiensis
Binomial name
Choeropsis liberiensis/Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Disputed) (Morton, 1849)[2]
Subspecies
C. l. liberiensis C. l. heslopi
Range cairt[1]

The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is a smaw hippopotamid which is native tae the forests an swamps o Wast Africae, primarily in Liberie wi smaw populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, an Ivory Coast.