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Taxon: Family Hippopotamidae Gray, 1821 (mammal)
Classification by:

[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
     Branch Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
       Division Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 see Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888
         Subdivision Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908 see Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
           Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
             Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
               Superclass Tetrapoda Goodrich, 1930 - tetrapods see Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
                 Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
                   Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897
                     Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872
                       Order Artiodactyla Owen, 1848 - even-toed ungulates see Order Cetartiodactyla Montgelard, Catzeflis & Douzery, 1997
                         Suborder Suiformes Jaeckel, 1911 see Suborder Suina Gray, 1868
                           Family Hippopotamidae Gray, 1821 - hippopotamuses
                             Genus Choeropsis Leidy, 1853 - pygmy hippopotamus
                             Genus Hippopotamus Linnaeus, 1758 - hippopotamus

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