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--> FAMILY Suidae
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--> TRIBE Phacochoerini
--> GENUS Phacochoerus
SPECIES Phacochoerus aethiopicus
| Author: | Pallas, 1766. | | Citation: | Misc. Zool.: 16. | | Common Name: | Desert Warthog | | Type Locality: | "Promontoria Bona Spei advectus"; between Kaffraria and Great Namaqualand (South Africa, Eastern Cape Prov.), two hundred leagues from the Cape of Good Hope according to Vosmaer (1766). | | Distribution: | Formerly in Cape Provinces, South Africa (extinct since ca. 1870 - 1890); NE Africa in E Ethiopia, N Kenya, and Somalia (Grubb, 1993; d'Huart and Grubb, 2001). | | Status: | IUCN – Extinct as P. a. aethiopicus, Vulnerable as P. a. delamerei, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | For distinctions from P. africanus, see Ewer (1957) and Grubb (1993). |
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