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Phacochoerus africanus
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Description
Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788). In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:220.
TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal, Cape Verde.
DISTRIBUTION: Outside forest zone of Africa from Senegal to Somalia, south to S Africa, Botswana and Nambia.
SYNONYMS: aeliani, barkeri, bufo, centralis, fossor, haroia, incisivus, massaicus, sclateri, shortridgei, sundevallii.
COMMENTS: Specifically distinct from P. aethiopicus, see Cooke and Wilkinson (1978), Ewer (1957), and Grubb (in press).
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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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D512126ADB04FF942DA8DC7AFCBC0701 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140202 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB04FF942DA8DC7AFCBC0701.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Suidae
- Genus
- Phacochoerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gmelin
- Species
- africanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Cooke, H. B. S., and A. F. Wilkinson. 1978. Suidae and Tayassuidae. Pp. 435 - 482, in Evolution of African mammals (V. J. Maglio and H. B. S. Cooke, eds). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 641 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.