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Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis Editio duodecima, reformata. Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii. vol. 1, pp. 1-532.

Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis Editio duodecima, reformata

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31. RHINOCEROS. Dentes primores utrinque II, remotissimi, obtusi. Cornu solidum, conicum, naso insidens.

unicornis.
1. Rhinoceros, Gesn. quadr. 842. Aldr. bisulc. 878. Jonst. quadr. 98, t.38. Bont. jav. 50 t.51. Bergen orat. 1746, t.1. Raj. quadr. 122. Edw. av. t.221.f.2.

bicornis.
ß. R. cornibus duobus. Syst.nat. 10. p.56. n.2

Habitat in Africa, India, victitans vepretibus, spinis, in coeno se volutans, mitis nisi lacessetur, irriatus cum fragore arboreo prosterno, lambendo trucidat.
Quantus erat cornu, cui pila Taurus erat. Martialis.
Statura et magnitudo Elephantis, sed pedibus brevioribus.
Cutis nuda pilis, nisi cauda et auriculis, Stiturae f. Rugae transversales: 1. Capitis postica. 2. Scapularis. 3. Abdominalis ante femora. 4. femoralis trans femora. Ungulae tres.
Cauda attenuata pedibus brevior.

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