- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Order Artiodactyla
- Family Hippopotamidae
- Genus Choeropsis
Pygmy hippo
Also called
Hexaprotodon
http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Mammalogy/systematics/A7artiodactyla.htm
as of 2002-07-10
The
pygmy hippopotamus is half as tall as the
hippopotamus and weighs 1/15 as much as a small big hippo. Both are
African; the pygmy hippo lives in western Africa (
Liberia and nearby, as the species name implies), while its big cousin inhabits the rivers of eastern Africa.
C. liberiensis