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Historical distribution of Rhinoceros sondaicus in South Asia

Rookmaaker MAP 37 JAVAN

Map showing the Historical distribution of Rhinoceros sondaicus, represented by the western subspecies Rhinoceros sondaicus inermis Lesson, 1836. This shows the extent of the range from about 1500 CE up to 1920 when the species went locally extinct. The dots in the regions of Odisha and Chhattisgarh represent unverifiable records.

Map published in Rookmaaker, L.C., 2024. The rhinoceros of South Asia. Leiden, Brill, p. 721, map. 66.37. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004691544_067.

© L.C. Rookmaaker. Map design by Ajay Karthick and Richard Kees. – Chapter is published as Open access under the terms of CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

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