Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In coll. Kaffrarian Museum, King William's Town, South Africa
Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In coll. Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In coll. Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Specimen. Locality: Malawi. In coll. Kaffrarian Museum, King William's Town, South Africa
The park consists of flat to slightly rolling plateau country, mainly in the drainage of the upper Dwangwa River, with many scattered hills. Main vegetation is miombo woodland.
Today found in the Kasungu NP. Jachman estimated about 10-20.
present and former distribution
Subspecies listed: Diceros bicornis minor (Drummond, 1876)
Gazetted in 1970.
2316 kmy in Kasungu District.
Rhino were in the past found virtually throughout Malawi except for the montane areas. They occurred among the foothills of the Nyika plateau, but were never recorded on the plateau proper. Today found in the Kasungu NP and the Mwabvi GR.
Gazetted in 1975.
Mwanza Bush mentioned by Kirby 1920 may be a collecting site also recorded by Loveridge, a rocky ridge south of the Zambezi, and although a fair distance upstream from the Shire confluence, it may be the Mwanza mentioned by Kirby. Clancey listed Muanza,
They occurred among the foothills of the Nyika plateau, but were never recorded on the plateau proper.
135 kmy in Nsanje District.
Rookmaaker 1983: 40 places Kirby's (1920) Manza in Malawi but it is in fact in Mozambique south of the Zambezi River.
The reserve is in broken hilly country in the drainage of the upper Thangadzi River. The vegetation consists of mopane (Colophospermum mopane) and other woodlands.
1000 kmy in Rumphi and Mzimba District.
Gazetted in 1977.
Rhinoceros no longer occurs in Vwaza Marsh Game Reserve
Rhinoceros africanus as synonym of D.b. minor, nec R. africanus Blumenbach, which is a synonym of the nominate race
Type locality Zululand, cf. Groves 1967
Type locality Karonga, Malawi and Niam-niam, east of Lake Rukwa, Tanzania.
