Babyrousa babyrussa (Linnaeus 1758)

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[Sus] babyrussa Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 50 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "Habitat in Borneo Indiae orientalis"; identified as "Island of Boero" by Thomas (1911 a) ( Indonesia, Buru Isl) .

Vernacular Names: Buru Babirusa.

Synonyms: Babyrousa alfurus (Lesson 1827) ; Babyrousa babirousa (Jardine 1836) ; Babyrousa babirusa (Guillemard 1889) ; Babyrousa babirussa (Quoy and Gaimard 1830) ; Babyrousa frosti (Thomas 1920) ; Babyrousa indicus ( Kerr 1792) ; Babyrousa orientalis ( Brisson 1762) ; Babyrousa quadricornua Perry 1811 .

Distribution: Indonesia, Buru (N Molucca Isls) and Sula Isls.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Former subspecies raised to species rank ( Groves, 2001 a, Meijaard and Groves, 2002). Probably introduced to Buru and the Sulu Isls; original distribution unknown ( Groves, 1980 b).

Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp.

Groves, C. P. 1980 b. Notes on the systematics of Babyrousa (Artiodactyla, Suidae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 55: 29 - 46.

Groves, C. [P.] 2001 a. Taxonomy of wild pigs of Southeast Asia. Asian Wild Pigs News, 1 (1): 3 - 4.

Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.

Kitchener, A. C., and C. Groves. 2002. New insights into the taxonomy of Macaca pagensis of the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra. Mammalia, 66: 533 - 542.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.