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Phylum: Chordata

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Rhinocerotidae

Southern white rhinoceros

Ceratotherium simum simum

The southern white rhinoceros is a nominate subspecies; it was given the scientific name Ceratotherium simum simum by the English explorer William John Burchell in the 1810s.

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Phylum

In biology, a phylum is a level of classification, or taxonomic rank, that is below kingdom and above class. Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom Animalia contains about 32 phyla.

Chordata

A chordate is a bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics.