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 Hooijer, Dirk Albert (detail)
   
1952
Fact and fiction in hippopotamology (sampling the history of scientific error).
Osiris 10: 109-116.
–Reviews the nomenclatural history of "Hippopotamus minimus" and "Hippopotamus medius", noting that the first is a senior synonym of H. dubius. Corrects the name of Protosiren(?) dubia to P.(?) minima, new combination (113-114).

Related Index Records (8)

Halicore cuvierii de Christol, 1832
(= Metaxytherium medium, in part; Metaxytherium serresii, in part; Protosiren minima, in part)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (syn. of Metaxytherium medium; 113.)
Hippopotamus dubius Cuvier, 1824
(= Protosiren minima)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (syn. of H. minimus; 113.)
Hippopotamus medius Desmarest, 1822
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (syn. of Metaxytherium medium; 113-114.)
Hippopotamus minimus Desmarest, 1822
(= Protosiren minima)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (priority over H. dubius; 113.)
Metaxytherium cuvierii (de Christol, 1832) de Christol in de Blainville, 1844
(= Metaxytherium medium)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (syn. of M. medium; 113-114.)
Metaxytherium medium (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
  x * 1952 Hooijer, D.A. ("M. medius", n.comb.; 114.)
Protosiren dubia (Cuvier, 1824) Sickenberg, 1934
(= Protosiren minima)
  x 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (syn. of P.(?) minima; 113.)
Protosiren minima (Desmarest, 1822) Hooijer, 1952
  x * 1952 Hooijer, D.A. (n.comb.; senior synonym of P.(?) dubia; 113.)

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