Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus
- Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus
Taxobox
name = "Hippopotamus creutzburgi"
fossil_range = Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Hippopotamidae
genus = "Hippopotamus"
species = †"H. creutzburgi"
binomial =† "Hippopotamus creutzburgi"
binomial_authority = Boekschoten and Sondaar, 1966 [Boekschoten, G.J. & Sondaar, P.Y. (1966): The Pleistocene of the Katharo basin (Crete) and its Hippopotamus. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 36: 17-44.]
The Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus or "Hippopotamus creutzburgi" is an extinct hippopotamus. It lived during the Pleistocene on Crete.
Two subspecies have been named: "Hippopotamus creutzburgi creutzburgi" and "Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus" [Kuss, S.E., (1975): Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus n. ssp., ein pleistozänes Zwergflusspferd von der Insel Kreta. Ber. Naturf. Ges. Freiburg i. Br. 65:5-23] . The latter one being the smaller of the two, but still bigger than the Cypriot hippo.
Bones of the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus were found by Dorothea Bate on the plateau of Katharo, in eastern Crete, in the 1920s. [Evans, Arthur: "The Early Nilotic, Libyan and Egyptian Relations with Minoan Crete" in "The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland" Vol. 55, Jul. - Dec., 1925 (Jul. - Dec., 1925), pp. 199-228] .
A similar species, the Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus minor") lived on the island of Cyprus until the Holocene.
ee also
* Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus
* Sicilian Hippopotamus
* Maltese Hippopotamus
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