header: Javan Rhinoceros
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line Rhinoceros sondaicus (Desmarest, 1822)

DISTRIBUTION

The Javan Rhino was once widespread throughout south-east Asia, ranging from Bengal eastward to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, and southwards through the Malay Peninsula to the islands of Sumatra and Java.6,11 Approximately 150 years ago the species occurred as three discrete populations. The subspecies inermis was found from Bengal to Assam and eastward to Myanmar; it is now thought to be extinct. A second subspecies, annamiticus, occurred throughout eastern Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam; the third subspecies, sondaicus, was found from Tenasserim through the Kra Isthmus to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and east to west Java.6

The majority of these populations have now disappeared and the principal surviving population of the Javan Rhinoceros is located on the Ujung Kulon peninsula, in western Java. In 1988, a second population of fewer than 20 rhinoceros was discovered in an area along the Dong Nai River, Vietnam.4 It is possible that other scattered remnant populations exist in Thailand and Indochina.6

Range States: Indonesia, Vietnam.


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