Biology:Northern Chinese boar
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Short description: Subspecies of mammal
Northern Chinese boar | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Suidae |
Genus: | Sus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | S. s. moupinensis
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Trinomial name | |
Sus scrofa moupinensis Milne-Edwards, 1871
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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.[1] It also occurs in Sichuan. It is likely to be the ancestor of domestic pigs.[2]
References
- ↑ 1871.Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 7:93.(in French)
- ↑ "Pig Domestication in Ancient China". September 12, 2005. http://www.kaogu.cn/en/Research_work/Archaeological_sciences_and_tec/2013/1025/30259.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q16480282 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern Chinese boar.
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