Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 638

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

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Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766) View in CoL

[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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Suidae

Genus

Phacochoerus

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Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Aper] aethiopicus

Pallas 1766: 16
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