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Kingdom :  ANIMALIA
Phylum :  CHORDATA
Class :  MAMMALIA
Order :  ARTIODACTYLA
Family :  HIPPOPOTAMIDAE
Genus :  Hippopotamus
Taxon : Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758 Comment on this entry
Distribution : Algeria (ex) , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Burkina Faso , Burundi , Cameroon , Central African Republic , Chad , Congo , Côte d'Ivoire , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Djibouti (ex) , Egypt (ex) , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea Bissau , Kenya , ? Liberia , Malawi , Mali , Mauritania (ex?) , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Rwanda , Senegal , Sierra Leone , Somalia , South Africa , Sudan , Swaziland , Togo , Uganda , United Republic of Tanzania , Zambia , Zimbabwe
Distribution key
ex - Extinct
? - outstanding query over status
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