Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

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Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)


Armin H. W. Seydack


Names
Genus: Potamochoerus (Gray, 1852)
Species: Bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)
Subspecies: Potamochoerus larvatus hassama Heuglin, 1863; Potamochoerus larvatus larvatus (including/largely equivalent to
P. l. koiropotamus Desmoulins, 1831)
Names in other languages: Afrikaans: Bosvark; French: Potamochère du Cap; German: Buschschwein; Italian: Potamocero;
Spanish: Potamocero de rio; Swahili: Nguruwe.

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