Rhinoceros sondaicus
| Rhinoceros sondaicus |
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| specie de Rhinoceros[*] |
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| stato de conservation: in periculo critic |
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| Identificatores e ligamines |
| ID NCBI: 102233 |
| ID EOL: 328342 |
| ID ITIS: 625004 |
| ID MSW: 14100067 |
| Commons: Rhinoceros sondaicus |
Rhinoceros sondaicus, le Rhinocerote de Java (Rhinocerote Sunda plus precisemente), es un specie de rhinocerotes.
Es membro del familia Rhinocerotidae e un del cinque species de rhinocerotes ancora existante. Illo pertine al gruppo del Rhinocerotes de India e mensura 3.1–3.2 m in longitude e 1.4–1.7 m in altura. Su corno, longe de cerca 25 cm, es le plus parve inter altere species de rhinocerotes.
Classification
[modificar | modificar fonte]Rango taxinomic
[modificar | modificar fonte]Supertaxones
[modificar | modificar fonte]- regnum = Animalia
- phylum = Chordata
- classis = Mammalia
- ordo = Perissodactyla
- familia = Rhinocerotidae
- genus = Rhinoceros
Subtaxones
[modificar | modificar fonte]Evolution
[modificar | modificar fonte]Le comparation del DNA mitochondrial indica que ancestres del rhinocerotes modern ha scindate del ancestres de Equidae 50 milliones anos in passato.[1]
Habitat
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Secundo le plus optimistic estimation, exista minus de 100 rhinocerotes de Java salvage.[2][3]
Le Rhinocerote de Java ha rangiate del isla de Indonesia, a India e China. Le specie es ora in periculo critic, con duo populationes salvage, e nulle in zoo. Illo es le plus rar mammal grande on terra.[4] Un population de 40–50 individuos vive in Parco national de Ujung Kulon super le isla de Java in Indonesia e un minor population, estimate in 2007 a 8, supervive in Parco National Cat Tien in Vietnam.
Ujung Kulon
[modificar | modificar fonte]Le Ujung Kulon peninsula esseva devastate per le eruption del Krakatoa in 1883. Le Rhinocerotes de Java recolonisava le peninsula desde le explosion.[5]
Galeria
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Un rhinocerote de India.
Referentias
- ↑ Xu, Xiufeng (1996). “The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Greater Indian Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, and the Phylogenetic Relationship Among Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla (+ Cetacea)”. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13 (9): 1167–1173. doi:. PMID: 8896369.
- ↑ Fernando, Prithiviraj (1 de junio 2006). “Genetic diversity, phylogeny and conservation of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)”. Conservation Genetics 7 (3): 439–448. doi:.
- ↑ Derr, Mark (11 de julio 2006). Racing to Know the Rarest of Rhinos, Before It's Too Late, The New York Times. Recuperate le 14 de octobre 2007.
- ↑ Dinerstein, Eric (2003). The Return of the Unicorns; The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 0-231-08450-1.
- ↑ Dursin, Richel (16 de januario 2001). Environment-Indonesia: Javan Rhinoceros Remains At High Risk, Inter Press Service.
Ligamentes extern
[modificar | modificar fonte]- Javan Rhino Info (Archivate 2011-01-20 al Wayback Machine) & Javan Rhino Pictures (Archivate 2007-12-09 al Wayback Machine) on the Rhino Resource Center (Archivate 2017-07-11 al Wayback Machine)
- International Rhino Foundation dedicated to the conservation of rhinos: Javan Rhino (Archivate 2011-07-22 al Wayback Machine)
- ARKive - images and movies of the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) (Archivate 2007-10-29 al Wayback Machine)
- UNEP & WCMC (Archivate 2008-07-20 al Wayback Machine) species sheet on the Javan Rhinoceros.