Hippopotamus lemerlei Grandidier, 1868 . In Milne Edwards, C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 67:1165.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Ambolisatra .

DISTRIBUTION: Known from subfossil material from coastal S Madagascar; survived into present millenium, 9th-13th Century (Stuenes, 1989).

SYNONYMS: leptorhynchus, standini.