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UNTIL Major Hans Schomburgk's search in 1911–12 for the headquarters of the pigmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis), little was known of its distribution except that it hailed from the country to which it owes its specific name. Schomburgk found that it extended from the coastal belt of Liberia back to the boundary of French Sudan, but how far it spread along the coast into Sierra Leone and French Ivory Coast he could not discover (“Distribution and Habits of the Pigmy Hippopotamus”, in 17th Ann. Rep. New York Zoo. Soc., 1912 (pub. 1913), pp. 113–120). His farthest east record is from Du Queah (Dukwia) River, on the boundary between the Mamba and the Bassa Country, about 10° 15′ W. long.
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RITCHIE, J. Distribution of the Pigmy Hippopotamus. Nature 126, 204–205 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126204c0
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