Phacochoerus aethiopicus
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
[Aper] aethiopicus Pallas 1766, Misc. Zool.: 16.
Type Locality: "Promontoria Bona Spei advectus"; between Kaffraria and Great Namaqualand (South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov.), two hundred leagues from the Cape of Good Hope according to Vosmaer (1766).
Vernacular Names: Desert Warthog.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. aethiopicus Pallas 1766
Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. delamerei Lönnberg 1909
Distribution: Formerly in Cape Provinces, South Africa (extinct since ca. 1870 - 1890); NE Africa in E Ethiopia, N Kenya, and Somalia (Grubb, 1993; d'Huart and Grubb, 2001).
Conservation: IUCN – Extinct as P. a. aethiopicus, Vulnerable as P. a. delamerei, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: For distinctions from P. africanus, see Ewer (1957) and Grubb (1993).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AB6A4FBA464988A6B3A53F4B8CD52B4B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/CA755D2D59D72938D0B3B1DA97B67928 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540917 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Suidae
- Genus
- Phacochoerus
- Species
- aethiopicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas, 1766) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Vosmaer, A. 1766. Natuurlyke historie van het Africaansche Breedsnuitig Varken, of Bosch-Zwyn. P. Meijer, Amsterdam, 15 pp.
- Grubb, P. 1993. The Afrotropical suids: Phacochoerus, Hylochoerus and Potamochoerus. Taxonomy and Classification, Chapter 4.1, in Action plan for the Suiformes (W. L. R. Oliver, ed.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 202 pp.
- d'Huart, J. P., and P. Grubb. 2001. Distribution of the common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) and the desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) in the Horn of Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 39: 156 - 169.
- Ewer, R. F. 1957. A collection of Phacochoerus aethiopicus teeth from the Kalkbank Middle Stone Age site, central Transvaal. Palaeontologia Africana, 5: 5 - 20.