Sus
Eurasian pigs
- Sus barbatus (bearded pig)
- Sus salvanius (pygmy hog)
- Sus scrofa (wild boar)
- Sus verrucosus (Javan pig)
- Sus bucculentus (Vietnam warty pig)
- Sus cebifrons (Visayan warty pig)
- Sus celebensis (Celebes wild boar)
- Sus heureni (Flores warty pig)
- Sus oliveri (Mindoro warty pig)
- Sus philippensis (Philippine warty pig)
- Sus timoriensis (Timor wild boar)
References
Groves, C. P. 1981. Ancestors for the Pigs: Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Genus Sus, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
Groves, C. P. 1997. Taxonomy of the wild pigs (Sus) of the Philippines, Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 120:163–191.
Groves, C.P. and P. Grubb. 1993. The Eurasian suids, Sus and Babyrousa—taxonomy and description. Pages 107-111 in: Oliver, W.L.R. (Ed.), Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland.
Groves, C. P., G. B. Schaller, G. Amato, and K. Khounboline. 1997. Rediscovery of the wild pig Sus bucculentus. Nature 386:335.
Grubb, P. 2005. Order Artiodactyla. Pages 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Larson, G., K. Dobney, U. Albarella, M. Fang, E. Matisoo-Smith, J. Robins, S. Lowden, H. Finlayson, T. Brand, E. Willerslev, P. Rowley-Conwy, L. Andersson, A. Cooper. 2005. Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Science 307(5715):1618-1621.
Lucchini, V. E. Meijaard, C. H. Diong, C. P. Groves, and E. Randi. 2005. New phylogenetic perspectives among species of South-east Asian wild pig (Sus sp.) based on mtDNA sequences and morphometric data. Journal of Zoology 266:25-35.
Mona, S., E. Randi and M. Tommaseo-Ponzetta. 2007. Evolutionary history of the genus Sus inferred from cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(2):757-762.
Robins, J. H., H. A. Ross, M. S. Allen, and E. Matisoo-Smith. 2006. Taxonomy: Sus bucculentus revisited. Nature 440:E7.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Sus barbatus |
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| Location | captive at London Zoo |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Bearded hog |
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| Scientific Name | Sus scrofa |
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| Location | India |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Wild Boar |
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| Copyright | © 2005 Jayanth Sharma |
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