Heude's Pig

Heude's Pig
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Genus: Sus
Species: S. bucculentus
Binomial name
Sus bucculentus
Heude, 1892

The Heude's Pig (Sus bucculentus), also known as the Indochinese Warty Pig or Vietnam Warty Pig, is a species of even-toed ungulate in the Suidae family. It is found in Laos and Vietnam. It is virtually unknown and was feared extinct, until the discovery of a skull from a recently killed individual in the Annamite Range, Laos, in 1995.[2] Recent evidence has suggested that the Heude's Pig may be identical to (and consequently a synonym of) wild boars from Indochina east of the Mekong.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Groves, C.P.P. & Oliver, W. (2008). Sus bucculentus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of data deficient.
  2. ^ Groves, C. P., Schaller, G. B., Amato, G. and Khounboline, K. (1997). Rediscovery of the wild pig Sus bucculentus. Nature 386: 335.