Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904, 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).