Biology:Northern Chinese boar

Short description: Subspecies of mammal

Northern Chinese boar
Scientific classification
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

Wikidata ☰ Q16480282 entry