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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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