Black rhinoceros

Black rhinoceros
Black rhinoceros at the St. Louis Zoo
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Eutheria
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Genus:	Diceros Gray, 1821
Species:	D. bicornis
Binomial name
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
Diceros bicornis bicornis † Diceros bicornis brucii † Diceros bicornis chobiensis Diceros bicornis ladoensis Diceros bicornis longipes † Diceros bicornis michaeli Diceros bicornis minor Diceros bicornis occidentalis
Historical black rhinoceros range (ca. 1700 A.D.)

The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), is a species of rhinoceros. It lives in eastern and central Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Angola. The black rhinoceros is not black. It is grey and brown.

The other African rhinoceros is the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The white rhinoceros is not white. It is also grey and brown.