Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ypotryll shine halittar Turai ta Tsakiya wanda aka nuna a cikin heraldry. Yana da kai mai ƙwanƙwasa na boar ko naman alade, jikin raƙumi mai ƙwanƙwasa, ƙafafu da ƙwanƙwasa na bijimi ko akuya, da kuma dogon wutsiyar maciji. An yi imanin sunansa ya samo asali ne daga Girkanci <unk>hippo<unk> (doki) ko a Turanci na Tsakiya, <unk>ypotame<unk> kanta ta samo asali ne daga Latin "ypotamus". Kodayake ba a san ma'anar ma'anar ko asalin halittar ba, ya bayyana a matsayin alamar John Tiptoft, 1st Earl na Worcester, wanda aka fi sani da "Butcher of England"; wani mutum da aka sani da matsanancin zalunci game da kisan gillar Lancastrians a lokacin mulkinsa a matsayin Babban Babban Jami'in a farkon 1460s. An san halittar da mummunan mummunar ta, kuma wataƙila tana nuna waɗanda suke ɗauke da ita a matsayin alamarsu. Tiptoft an fille kansa a cikin 1470 ta Lancastrians a lokacin War of Roses
(1455 zuwa 1487).