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SPECIES Sus salvanius

Author:Hodgson, 1847.
Citation:J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 16: 423.
Common Name:Pygmy Hog
Type Locality:"Habitat, Saul forest" but no locality given; N India, "Sikhim Tarai [Sikkim Terai] … The moist forest-tract at the base of the eastern Himalaya" (Lydekker, 1915:343).
Distribution:Bhutan, S Nepal, N India (incl. Sikkim).
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.
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