Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)

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[Aper] aethiopicus Pallas 1766 , Misc. Zool.: 16.

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).

Vernacular Names: Desert Warthog.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. aethiopicus Pallas 1766

Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. delamerei Lönnberg 1909

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).

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct as P. a. aethiopicus, Vulnerable as P. a. delamerei, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: For distinctions from P. africanus , see Ewer (1957) and Grubb (1993).

References

d'Huart, J. P., and P. Grubb. 2001. Distribution of the common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) and the desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) in the Horn of Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 39: 156 - 169.

Ewer, R. F. 1957. A collection of Phacochoerus aethiopicus teeth from the Kalkbank Middle Stone Age site, central Transvaal. Palaeontologia Africana, 5: 5 - 20.

Grubb, P. 1993. The Afrotropical suids: Phacochoerus, Hylochoerus and Potamochoerus. Taxonomy and Classification, Chapter 4.1, in Action plan for the Suiformes (W. L. R. Oliver, ed.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 202 pp.

Vosmaer, A. 1766. Natuurlyke historie van het Africaansche Breedsnuitig Varken, of Bosch-Zwyn. P. Meijer, Amsterdam, 15 pp.