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Sus

Eurasian pigs

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Containing group: Suinae

Other Names for Sus

References

Groves, C. P. 1981. Ancestors for the Pigs: Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Genus Sus, Australian National University Press, Canberra.

Groves, C. P. 1997. Taxonomy of the wild pigs (Sus) of the Philippines, Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 120:163–191.

Groves, C.P. and P. Grubb. 1993. The Eurasian suids, Sus and Babyrousa—taxonomy and description. Pages 107-111 in: Oliver, W.L.R. (Ed.), Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippos. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland.

Groves, C. P., G. B. Schaller, G. Amato, and K. Khounboline. 1997. Rediscovery of the wild pig Sus bucculentus. Nature 386:335.

Grubb, P. 2005. Order Artiodactyla. Pages 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Larson, G., K. Dobney, U. Albarella, M. Fang, E. Matisoo-Smith, J. Robins, S. Lowden, H. Finlayson, T. Brand, E. Willerslev, P. Rowley-Conwy, L. Andersson, A. Cooper. 2005. Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Science 307(5715):1618-1621.

Lucchini, V. E. Meijaard, C. H. Diong, C. P. Groves, and E. Randi. 2005. New phylogenetic perspectives among species of South-east Asian wild pig (Sus sp.) based on mtDNA sequences and morphometric data. Journal of Zoology 266:25-35.

Mona, S., E. Randi and M. Tommaseo-Ponzetta. 2007. Evolutionary history of the genus Sus inferred from cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(2):757-762.

Robins, J. H., H. A. Ross, M. S. Allen, and E. Matisoo-Smith. 2006. Taxonomy: Sus bucculentus revisited. Nature 440:E7.

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Scientific Name Sus barbatus
Location captive at London Zoo
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Bearded hog
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2007 wokka
Scientific Name Sus scrofa
Location India
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Wild Boar
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2005 Jayanth Sharma
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