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European Ass

Equus hydruntinus

Classification

Family
Equidae

The European wild ass (Equus hydruntinus or Equus hemionus hydruntinus) or hydruntine is an extinct equine from the Middle Pleistocene to Late Holocene of Europe and West Asia, and possibly North Africa. It is a member of the subgenus Asinus, and closely related to the living Asiatic wild ass. The specific epithet, hydruntinus, means from Otranto (Hydruntum in Latin).

Distribution

(c) Erich Pucher, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1