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Beaux, O. de 1923. Mammiferi delle Somalia Italiano. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civile di Storia Naturale, Milano 62: 247-316.

Mammiferi delle Somalia Italiano

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Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Skin, horns. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-a

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Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skin, horns. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Foetus. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-c

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Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-a

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skin, horns. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-a

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-a

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-a

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Foetus. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-c

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skin, horns. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Foetus. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-c

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skull. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: A 2587-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skin, horns. Sex: Male. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-a

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Skin, horns. Sex: Female. Locality: Somalia, Bidi Scionde, Lower Giuba. Collected by: V.T. Zammarano, 1922. In Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy. Catalogue number: 1482-b

Note
Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1922

Museum in Milano has 3 specimens collected by V.T. Zammarano in May-June 1922 at Bidi Scionde, lower Giuba.

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Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Somalia, specimens in mus. Milan Subad. Male juvenile female Length of the superior surface - 350 mm Width at the orbital bones 230 mm 143 mm Zygomatic breath 315 mm 223 mm Postorbital constriction 109 mm 90 mm End

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Location Museums Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

specimens from Somalia. subadult male, front horn 204 mm, rear horn 100 mm. Juvenile female, front horn 101 mm, rear horn ca. 30 mm.

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