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Eurasian Wild Boar Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oliver Keuling, Tomasz Podgórski, Andrea Monaco, Mario Melletti, Dorota Merta,

Marzena Albrycht, Peter V. Genov, Friederike Gethöffer, Sebastian G. Vetter, Ferran Jori,

Riccardo Scalera, and Jaime Gongora

Names

Genus: Sus Linnaeus, 1758

New proposed species: Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758; Sus nigripes Blanford, 1875; Sus ussuricus Heude, 1888; Sus moupinensis

Milne-Edwards, 1871; Sus chirodontus Heude, 1888; Sus leucomystax Temminck, 1842; Sus riukiuanus Kuroda, 1924; Sus taevanus

Swinhoe, 1863; Sus davidi Groves, 1981; Sus cristatus Wagner, 1839; Sus vittatus Boie, 1828 (Groves & Grubb 2011; see also

Chapter 1 in this book).

Subspecies within Sus scrofa: S. s. algirus Loche, 1867; S. s. attila Thomas, 1912; S. s. baeticus Thomas, 1912; S. s. lybicus Gray, 1868;

S. s. meridionalis Forsyth Major, 1882

Names in other languages: Albanian: Derri i eger; Arabic: ; Bulgarian: Diva svninja, Chinese: 公豬; Croatian: Divlja svinja;

Czech: Prase divoké; Danish: Vildsvin; Dutch: Wild zwijn; Estonian: Metssiga; Finnish: Villisika; French: Sanglier, Sanglier

d’Eurasie; German: Wildschwein, Schwarzwild; Hindi: सूअर; Hungarian: Vaddisznó; Italian: Cinghiale; Japanese; イノシシ;

Lithuanian: Sernas; Norwegian: Villsvin; Polish: Dzik ; Portuguese: Javali; Romansh: Portg selvadi ; Russian: кабан; Slovak:

Diviak lesný; Spanish: Jabalí; Swedish: Vildsvin; Turkish: Yaban Domuzu

Other names: Eurasian wild pig, wild pig, wild hog

We point out that most of the information presented in this chapter pertains to Sus scrofa sensu stricto and the data related to some

of the new proposed species regard only a few studies. This is due to the limited information available for some of the new proposed

Asian wild boar species.

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