Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus 1758)

[Sus] porcus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 50.

Type Locality: "Habitat in Africa" (West Africa); based on animals exported to Brazil (Simoons, 1953).

Vernacular Names: Red River Hog.

Synonyms: Potamochoerus albifrons Du Chaillu 1860; Potamochoerus albinuchalis Lönnberg 1919; Potamochoerus guineensis (Pallas 1766); Potamochoerus mawambicus Lorenz 1923; Potamochoerus penicillatus (Schinz 1848); Potamochoerus pictus (Gray 1852); Potamochoerus ubangensis Lönnberg 1910 .

Distribution: Rainforest zone of Africa from Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo; no reliable record from Gambia (Grubb et al., 1998) or Sudan (Grubb, 1993).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: A monotypic species (Grubb, 1993).