Dasychoerus Gray, 1873

Pickford, Martin & Obada, Théodor, 2016, Pliocene suids from Musaitu and Dermenji, Moldova: implications for understanding the origin of African Kolpochoerus Van Hoepen & Van Hoepen, 1932, Geodiversitas 38 (1), pp. 99-134 : 102

Genus Dasychoerus Gray, 1873

GENERIC DIAGNOSIS. — Suinae with verrucosic male lower canines, relatively narrow parietal region of the skull slightly convex transversely; gently undulating dorsal skull profile; widely diverging zygomatic arches tending to be broader in the middle than at the rear, zygoma inflated; laterally expanded nasals; large and rugose supra-canine flange (in males, more gracile in females), elongated rostrum; thickened mandibular body (pachygnathy Arambourg 1947) (modified and extended from descriptions in Azzaroli 1954 and Berdondini 1992).

TYPE SPECIES. — Sus verrucosus Müller & Schlegel, 1845 .