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On the Web
- Ultimate Ungulate Page: Perissodactyla - Taxonomy of the order of horses, zebras, tapirs and rhinoceroses, with biological descriptions of many individual species.
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology - Many details and links to information about the family Equidae.
- Animals with Odd-Numbered Hooves - Information, photos and videos of horses, zebra, rhinoceros and other odd-toed ungulates.
- Tapiridae - Biology and taxonomy of the tapirs from the Animal Diversity Web.
- Tapir Specialist Group - A volunteer consortium of tapir researchers, scientists, zoo professionals, and conservation advocates dedicated to conserving the world's tapirs and their habitats.
- The Tapir Gallery - Comprehensive site offers information, photo galleries, stories, links, resources, a mailing list, and ways to help preserve tapirs and their habitats.
- Rhino Resource Center - Provides a searchable database of information on the rhinoceros and is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge on the five endangered species.
- Save the Rhino International - This organisation works to conserve genetically viable populations of endangered rhinoceros species in the wild by funding conservation projects in Africa and Asia.
- The Rhino Guide - Contains information on the remaining five species of Rhinoceros: Javan, Indian, Sumatran, White and Black.
- Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michgeli) - Includes photo and facts about the range, status, habitat, niche, life history, and special adaptations of this mammal.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ancylopoda - Ancylopoda, is a group of mammals in the Perissodactyla that show long, curved and cleft claws. Morphological evidence indicates the Ancylopoda diverged from the tapirs, rhinoceroses and horses (Euperissodactyla) after the Brontotheria, however earlier authoritites such as Osborn sometimes considered the Ancylopoda to be outside Perissodactyla or, as was popular more recently, to be related to Brontotheria.
- Ferungulata - Ferungulata is traditionally a clade with the rank of cohort within the placental mammals. Established by George Gaylord Simpson in 1945, it includes the Carnivora, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla as well as Tubulidentata and a superorder, Paenungulata, plus a number of orders known only as fossils.
- Zooamata - Zooamata is a proposed clade of mammals consisting of Ferae (carnivores and pangolins) and Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates). Together with Cetartiodactyla (even-toed ungulates and whales) it forms Ferungulata, and is part of Laurasiatheria.
- Brontotheriidae - Brontotheriidae, also called Titanotheriidae, is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinos, and tapirs. Although brontotheres are probably most closely related to horses, superficially they looked rather like rhinoceroses, although they were not true rhinos.
- Black Rhinoceros - The Black Rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis also colloquially Black Rhino is a mammal in the order Perissodactyla, native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Although the Rhino is referred to as a "Black" creature, it is actually more of a grey-white color in appearance.