Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 638

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11336271

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scientific name

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904
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Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904 View in CoL

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904 View in CoL , Nature, 70: 577.

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).

Vernacular Names: Giant Forest Hog.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hylochoerus meinertzhageni subsp. meinertzhageni Thomas 1904

Subspecies Hylochoerus meinertzhageni subsp. rimator Thomas 1906

Subspecies Hylochoerus meinertzhageni subsp. ivoriensis Bouet and Neuville 1930

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).

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as H. m. ivoriensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: See Thomas (1904 a) 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Suidae

Genus

Hylochoerus

Loc

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

Thomas 1904: 577
1904
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