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--> FAMILY Suidae
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--> TRIBE Suini
--> GENUS Sus
SPECIES Sus bucculentus
Author: | Heude, 1892. | Citation: | Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chin., 2: pl. 20b, fig. 7. | Common Name: | Heude's Pig | Type Locality: | Viet Nam, Cochin China, "sur les bords du Donnaï" (= Dong Nai River); the type is labelled "Bienhoa" (Viet Nam). | Distribution: | Vietnam, Laos. | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. | Comments: | The species is more extensively described by Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chin., 2:219, pl. 40 [1894]. Known from the lectotype and paralectotype skulls, now in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, and a third skull recently obtained from the Annamite Range, Laos (Braun et al., 2001; Groves and Schaller, 2000; Groves et al., 1997). |
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