Hippopotamus (genus)

Hippos have a barrel-shaped body, short legs, big mouths, short tails with hair at the tips, four-toed hooves with webbing, big canines used for defense, big upper lips with sparse whiskers, and two little ears on top of their heads. Their eyes, also on top of their heads, have horizontal oval-shaped pupils, and can range from brown to green. They have two nostrils that can shut underwater.^{[citation needed]}

The species of the genus Hippopotamus include:

• Hippopotamus amphibius, hippopotamus

• †Hippopotamus aethiopicus (Africa, Early Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus antiquus, (Europe, Early-Middle Pleistocene) considerably larger than living hippopotamuses
• †Hippopotamus behemoth (West Asia, Early Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Cretan dwarf hippopotamus (Early Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus gorgops (Africa, West Asia, Early Pleistocene-early Middle Pleistocene) considerably larger than living hippopotamuses
• †Hippopotamus kaisensis (Africa, Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus melitensis, Maltese hippopotamus (Middle-Late Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus minor, Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (late Middle Pleistocene-Late Pleistocene, synonym Phanourios minor one of the smallest known hippopotamuses)^[7]
• †Hippopotamus pentlandi, Sicilian hippopotamus (Middle-Late Pleistocene)
• †Hippopotamus sirensis (Africa, Early Pleistocene, possibly a synonym of H. gorgops)^[8]
• †Malagasy hippopotamuses (Late Pleistocene-Holocene)
  • †Hippopotamus madagascariensis, Madagascar dwarf hippopotamus
  • †Hippopotamus lemerlei, Lemerle's dwarf hippopotamus
  • †Hippopotamus laloumena, Malagasy hippopotamus

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