Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 185

309. Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, 1822

Common name: Javan Rhinoceros

Myanmar name:

Distribution: This species once distributed in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and probably Southern China through peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra and Java in the mid nineteenth century ( Groves 1967). In Myanmar, formerly distributed in Southern Myanmar and the last known record is two individuals that occurred in Dawei Township area on the Myanmar-Thailand border in 1962.

Remarks: This species is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN and a completely protected species of Myanmar.