Ceratotherium simum simum. Range: Formerly parts of South Africa from Orange River north to the Zambesi. Now extinct except in a protected area of Zululand, Natal.
Synonyms of Ceratotherium. Ceratotherium Gray. Square-lipped or White Rhino Ceratotherium Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 1027, 1867. Genotype Rhinoceros simus Burchell (see Sclater, W. L., Mamm. South Africa, 1: 297, 1900). Rhinoceros, Opsiceros, Atelodus, Rhinaster, Diceros, Coelodonta, in part, of various authors.
Subspecies recognized D.b.bicornis D.b. somaliensis
African species. family Rhinocerotidae genus Ceratotherium Gray - species: C. simum simum, C. simum cottoni genus Diceros Gray - species: D. bicornis bicornis, D. bicornis somaliensis.
CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM SIMUM (Burchell). Square-lipped or White Rhino Rhinoceros simus Burchell, Bull. des Sci. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, p. 97, pl., f.1, 2, 1817. Interior of South Africa, near lat. 26? S. Rhinoceros canus Griffith, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, 5: 292, 1827. Southern Africa. Rhinoceros burchellii Lesson, Manuel de Mammalogie, p. 332, 1827. Interior of Cape of Good Hope. Apparently based on the Rhinoc?ros de Burchell of Desmarest, Encyclop. M?thodique, Mammalogie, 2: 401, 1822. Rhinoceros oswellii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1853, p. 46, text-f., 25 July 1854. Interior of South Africa. Rhinoceros crossii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1854, p. 250, text-f., 11 Apr. 1855. No locality. The specimen on which this species was founded is a horn, which though re- ferred by Trouessart to Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Cuvier), has more the appearance of being that of the White Rhino. Range: Formerly parts of South Africa from Orange River north to the Zambesi. Now extinct except in a protected area of Zululand, Natal.
Synonym of Ceratotherium simum. Rhinoceros crossii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1854, p. 250, text-f., 11 Apr. 1855. No locality. The specimen on which this species was founded is a horn, which though referred by Trouessart to Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Cuvier), has more the appearance of being that of the White Rhino.
Synonym of D.b.bicornis. Opsiceros occidentalis Zukowsky, Arch. f. Naturgesch., 88: sect. A, pt. 7, p. 162, June 1922. Kaokoveld-Kunene region, Southwest Africa. Regarded by Shortridge (Mamm. South West Africa, 1: 412, 1934) as doubtfully distinguishable from the typical form, but if valid, presumably the same as Rhinoceros niger Schinz, which would thus antedate it.
Rhinoceros brucii Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. R?gne Animal, Mamm., p. 159, 1842. Said by Schwarz (Ergebn. Zweiten Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr.-Exped. 1910-11, 1: 870, June 1920) to be a valid name based on Blainville's 'Rhinoc?ros d'Abissinie,' from Tscherkin, between Bahr Salaam and Atbara River, northwestern Abyssinia. Hollister states that it is a nomen nudum.
