Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

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Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus


(Gmelin, 1788)


Thomas M. Butynski and Yvonne A. de Jong


Names


Genus: Warthogs Phacochoerus F. Cuvier, 1826


Species: Common warthog Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788)


Subspecies: Northern warthog Phacochoerus africanus africanus (Gmelin, 1788)


Subspecies: Eritrean warthog Phacochoerus africanus aeliani (Cretzschmar, 1826)


Subspecies: Central African warthog Phacochoerus africanus massaicus Lönnberg, 1909


Subspecies: Southern warthog Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii Lönnberg, 1909


French: Phacochère commun; German: Warzenschwein; Spanish: Facóquero común; Italian: Facocero


Names in other languages: Dutch: Wrattenzwijn, Knobbelzwijn; Kiswahili: Ngiri; Afrikaans: Vlakvark; Portuguese: Facochero


Other common names: African lens-pig, naked swine, kolobe


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