Nota de aplicación
Species of thick-skinned, herbivorous, even-toed hoofed mammals, significantly smaller than the common hippopotamus, native to the forests and swamps of western Africa; thought to be the only surviving species of their genus, as the Malagasy pigmy hippopotamus is presumed extinct.
Ubicación jerarquía
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- .. organismo vivo (nombre jerárquico)
- .... organismo vivo (entidad)
- ...... Eucariota (dominio)
- ........ animal (reino)
- .......... Chordata (phylum)
- ............ vertebrado (filo)
- .............. mamífero (clase)
- ................ artiodáctilo (orden)
- .................. Hippopotamidae (family)
- .................... Hexaprotodon (genus)
- ...................... Hexaprotodon liberiensis (species)
- ...................... Hexaprotodon madagascariensis (extinct species)