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SPECIES Potamochoerus porcus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 50. | Common Name: | Red River Hog | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Africa" (West Africa); based on animals exported to Brazil (Simoons, 1953). | Distribution: | Rainforest zone of Africa from Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo; no reliable record from Gambia (Grubb et al., 1998) or Sudan (Grubb, 1993). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | A monotypic species (Grubb, 1993). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
albifrons Du Chaillu, 1860 albinuchalis Lönnberg, 1919 guineensis (Pallas, 1766) mawambicus Lorenz, 1923 penicillatus (Schinz, 1848) pictus (Gray, 1852) ubangensis Lönnberg, 1910
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