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Phacochoerus aethiopicus

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Description

Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas, 1766). Mise. Zool., p. 16.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, between Kaffraria and Great Namaqualand, two hundred leagues from the Cape of Good Hope. See Vosmaer (1766).

DISTRIBUTION: Cape Province, South Africa (extinct); N Kenya and Somalia. See Grubb (in press).

SYNONYMS: delamerei, edentatus, pallasii, typicus (see Grubb, in press).

COMMENTS: For distinctions from P. africanus, see Ewer (1957).

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 377, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D512126ADB04FF942DA8DEBDFAC7086A

Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D512126ADB04FF942DA8DEBDFAC7086A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205140203 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB04FF942DA8DEBDFAC7086A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Suidae
Genus
Phacochoerus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Species
aethiopicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas, 1766) sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Vosmaer, A. 1766. Natuurlyke historie van het Africaansche Breedsnuitig Varken, of Bosch-Zwyn. P. Meijer, Amsterdam, 15 pp.
  • Ewer, R. F. 1957. A collection of Phacochoerus aethiopicus teeth from the Kalkbank Middle Stone Age site, central Transvaal. Palaeontologia Africana, 5: 5 - 20.