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Peenen, F.D.P. van 1969. Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam. Washington, Smithsonian Institution. pp. i-vi, 1-310.

Preliminary identification manual for mammals of South Vietnam

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Location Borneo Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Skull. Locality: Borneo. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA. Catalogue number: USNM 49561

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Location Museums Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1900

Skull. Locality: Borneo. In coll. U.S. National Museum, Washington, USA. Catalogue number: USNM 49561

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Location Vietnam Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1969

Locality record: Dalat, Tuyen Duc Province.

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Location Vietnam Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1969

Rhinoceros sondaicus, Locality record: Bien Hoa, Bien Hoa Province.

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Location Borneo Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1900

Skull in US National Museum, USNM 49561, collected 18/6/1900 in Borneo.

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Location Vietnam Subject Distribution Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus) Year 1969

Locality record: Darlac plateau, Darlac province.

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Location Vietnam Subject Distribution Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis) Year 1969

Locality record for South Vietnam: Cam Ranh, for Dicerorhinus sumatrensis.

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Location Vietnam Subject Distribution Species Asian Rhinos Year 1920

As recently as 1920s rhinos were hunted not far from Saigon.

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Length of posterior horn 5 cm in females, up to 3x as long in males

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Length of body 2100-4200 mm

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

i 1/2, c 0/0, pm 3/3, m 3/3 x 2 = 30, incisors often absent.

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Horn less than 250 mm, usually present in males only

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Javan Rhino (sondaicus)

Length of tail 600-750 mm

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Length of Body 250-280 cm

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Location Borneo Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Skull from Borneo, greatest length 525,8 mm

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Sumatran Rhino (sumatrensis)

Length of horn 150 mm in females, up to 3x as long in males

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