Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin 1788)

[Sus] africanus Gmelin 1788, in: Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., Vol. 1: 220.

Type Locality: "Habitat in Africa a capite viridi ad caput bonae spei"; restricted to Senegal, "Cape Verd [Verde]" (Lydekker, 1915:373).

Vernacular Names: Common Wart-hog.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Phacochoerus africanus subsp. africanus Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Phacochoerus africanus subsp. aeliani Cretzschmar 1828

Subspecies Phacochoerus africanus subsp. massaicus Lönnberg 1908

Subspecies Phacochoerus africanus subsp. sundevallii Lönnberg 1908

Distribution: Outside rainforest zone of Africa in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nambia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, N Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered as P. a. aeliani, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Specifically distinct from P. aethiopicus (Cooke and Wilkinson, 1978; Ewer, 1957; Grubb, 1993). Synonymy tentative, based on Grubb (1993).