CRETAN DWARF HIPPOPOTAMUS

The 'Cretan Dwarf Hippopotamus' or '''Hippopotamus creutzburgi''' is an extinct hippopotamus. It lived during the Pleistocene on Crete.
Two subspecies have been named: ''Hippopotamus creutzburgi creutzburgi'' and ''Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus''^[1]. The latter one being the smallest of the two, but still bigger than the Cypriot hippo.
A similar species, the Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus (''Hippopotamus minor'') lived on the island of Cyprus until the Holocene.

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See also

★ Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus

★ Sicilian Hippopotamus

★ Maltese Hippopotamus

References

1. Kuss, S.E., (1975): Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus n. ssp., ein pleistozänes Zwergflusspferd von der Insel Kreta. Ber. Naturf. Ges. Freiburg i. Br. 65:5-23