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Northern Chinese boar

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Subspecies of mammal
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Northern Chinese boar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Genus: Sus
Species: S. scrofa
Subspecies: S. s. moupinensis
Trinomial name
Sus scrofa moupinensis
Milne-Edwards, 1871
Synonyms
Species synonymy
  • acrocranius (Heude, 1892)
  • chirodontus (Heude, 1888)
  • chirodonticus (Heude, 1899)
  • collinus (Heude, 1892)
  • curtidens (Heude, 1892)
  • dicrurus (Heude, 1888)
  • flavescens (Heude, 1899)
  • frontosus (Heude, 1892)
  • laticeps (Heude, 1892)
  • leucorhinus (Heude, 1888)
  • melas (Heude, 1892)
  • microdontus (Heude, 1892)
  • oxyodontus (Heude, 1888)
  • paludosus (Heude, 1892)
  • palustris (Heude, 1888)
  • planiceps (Heude, 1892)
  • scrofoides (Heude, 1892)
  • spatharius (Heude, 1892)
  • taininensis (Heude,1888)

The northern Chinese boar (Sus scrofa moupinensis) is a subspecies of wild boar native to China and Vietnam. The subspecies was described by Alphonse Milne-Edwards in 1871. It also occurs in Sichuan. It is likely to be the ancestor of domestic pigs.

References

  1. 1871.Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 7:93.(in French)
  2. "Pig Domestication in Ancient China". September 12, 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
Taxon identifiers
Sus scrofa moupinensis


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