Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788) . In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:220.

TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal, Cape Verde .

DISTRIBUTION: Outside forest zone of Africa from Senegal to Somalia, south to S Africa, Botswana and Nambia.

SYNONYMS: aeliani, barkeri, bufo, centralis, fossor, haroia, incisivus, massaicus, sclateri, shortridgei, sundevallii.

COMMENTS: Specifically distinct from P. aethiopicus, see Cooke and Wilkinson (1978), Ewer (1957), and Grubb (in press).