Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 378

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scientific name

Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)
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Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822) View in CoL . Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:447.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar (no precise locality) .

DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia, S Sudan and E Zaire south to E and S South Africa, west to N Botswana and Angola; Madagascar and Comoro Isis (introduced?).

SYNONYMS: africanus , arrhenii, choeropotamus, congicus, cottoni , daemonis, edwardsi, hassama, hova, intermedius, johnstoni , keniae, koiropotamus, madagascariensis , maschona, nyasae, somaliensis.

COMMENTS: Specifically distinct from P. porcus , see de Beaux (1924) and Grubb (in press).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Suidae

Genus

Potamochoerus

Loc

Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)

Peter Grubb 1993
1993
Loc

Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)

F. Cuvier 1822: 447
1822
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