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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Suidae
--> SUBFAMILY Suinae
--> TRIBE Potamochoerini
--> GENUS Hylochoerus
SPECIES Hylochoerus meinertzhageni
| Author: | Thomas, 1904. | | Citation: | Nature, 70: 577. | | Common Name: | Giant Forest Hog | | Type Locality: | Kenya, "Nandi Forest, near the Victoria Nyanza, at an altitude of 7000 feet"; Nandi Forest, near Kaimosi [2134 m] (Allen and Lawrence, 1936). | | Distribution: | W Africa in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana; not confirmed from Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Togo (Grubb et al., 1998). C Africa in W and SE Cameroon, Central African Republic, N and E Dem. Rep. Congo, SW Ethiopia, N Gabon, Kenya, E Nigeria, N Republic of Congo, Rwanda, S Sudan, and Uganda; not reliably recorded from Tanzania (Grimshaw, 1998; Kock and Howell, 2000). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable as H. m. ivoriensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | See Thomas (1904a) for designation of the type specimen. Hylochoerus schulzi Zukowsky, 1921 is a synonym of Potamochoerus larvatus hassama (Grimshaw, 1998; Kock and Howell, 2000). Synonymy otherwise follows Grubb (1993). |
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