Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:74.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Nile River .

DISTRIBUTION: Rivers of savanna zone of Africa, and main rivers of forest zone in Zaire, south to rivers of S Cape Province (South Africa), and north along White Nile to Nile Delta (Egypt); now extinct along most of the White Nile and in most of South Africa, except in N and E Transvaal and N Natal.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana).

SYNONYMS: abyssinicus, australis, capensis, constrictus, kiboko, senegalensis, tschadensis, typus.