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Pygmy hippopotamus
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The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is a smaw hippopotamid which is native tae the forests an swamps o Wast Africae, primarily in Liberie wi smaw populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, an Ivory Coast.
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Pygmy hippopotamus | |
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Pygmy hippopotamus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Hippopotamidae |
Genus: | Choeropsis |
Species: | C. liberiensis |
Binomial name | |
Choeropsis liberiensis/Hexaprotodon liberiensis (Disputed) (Morton, 1849)[2] | |
Subspecies | |
C. l. liberiensis | |
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Range cairt[1] |
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