Oliver's Warty Pig

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Oliver's Warty Pig
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Suinae
Genus: Sus
Species: Sus oliveri
Binomial name
Sus oliveri
Groves, 1997

Oliver's Warty Pig (Sus oliveri), or Mindoro Warty Pig is a small species of pig from tropical Asia. Oliver's Warty Pig can only be found on the island of Mindoro in the Central Philippines. This is a separate species from S. philippensis according to Colin Groves, as shown by differences in the skull and skin.


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  • 1. Grubb, P. 2005. Order Artiodactyla. Pp. 637-722 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed.
  • 2. Groves, C.P. 1997. Taxonomy of wild pigs (Sus) of the Philippines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120:163-191.
  • 3. Article about Sus oliveri is on the German Wikipedia.