Dicerorhinus

Dicerorhinus, "horn", "nose" ) is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros, and several extinct species. The genus likely originated from the Late Miocene of central Myanmar. Many species previously placed in this genus probably belong elsewhere''.''

Taxonomy

Species provisionally considered valid include:

†Dicerorhinus fusuiensis originally described as Rhinoceros ''fusuiensis Early Pleistocene, South China.
†Dicerorhinus gwebinensis Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein et al., 2008 Known from a skull of Pliocene-Early Pleistocene age found in Myanmar. Some authors have considered the skull not distinguishable from that of D. sumatrensis.

Historically, Dicerorhinus was a wastebasket taxon. Revisions by several authors over the years have removed many species:
Transferred to Stephanorhinus
Dicerorhinus merckii
Dicerorhinus hemitoechus
Dicerorhinus etruscus
Dicerorhinus yunchuchenensis
Dicerorhinus jeanvireti
Dicerorhinus choukoutienensis
Dicerorhinus orientalis
Dicerorhinus nipponicus
Transferred to Dihoplus

Dicerorhinus megarhinus
Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri
Dicerorhinus ringstroemi

Transferred to Caementodon
Dicerorhinus caucasicus
Transferred to Lartetotherium

Dicerorhinus sansaniensis
Dicerorhinus cixianensis Chen and Wu, 1976

Transferred to Rusingaceros

Dicerorhinus leakeyi''

Placement of the Sumatran rhinoceros among recent and subfossil rhinoceros species based on nuclear genomes
Bayesian morphological phylogeny Note: This excludes living African rhinoceros species.