Sus bucculentus Heude 1892

Sus bucculentus Heude 1892, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chin., 2: pl. 20b, fig. 7.

Type Locality: Viet Nam, Cochin China, "sur les bords du Donnaï" (= Dong Nai River); the type is labelled "Bienhoa" (Viet Nam).

Vernacular Names: Heude's Pig.

Distribution: Vietnam, Laos.

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: The species is more extensively described by Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chin., 2:219, pl. 40 [1894]. Known from the lectotype and paralectotype skulls, now in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, and a third skull recently obtained from the Annamite Range, Laos (Braun et al., 2001; Groves and Schaller, 2000; Groves et al., 1997).