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'''''Potamochoerus''''' (meaning "river pig") is a [[genus]] in the pig family ([[Suidae]]). The two species are restricted to [[sub-Saharan Africa]], although the bushpig, possibly due to [[introduced species|introduction]] by man, also occurs in [[Madagascar]] and nearby [[island]]s. Early in the 20th century, there were considered to be as many as five different species within the genus. These were gradually consolidated, until, in the 1970s, it was generally agreed that all were representatives of just a single species (''P. porcus''). The bushpig was again recognised as a separate species from about 1993.<ref name=Leslie2015>{{cite journal | author = Leslie, D.M. | author2 = Huffman, B.A. | date = July 2015 | title = ''Potamochoerus porcus'' (Artiodactyla: Suidae) | journal = Mammalian Species | volume = 47 | issue = 919 | pages = 15–31 | doi = 10.1093/mspecies/sev002}}</ref>
'''''Potamochoerus''''' (meaning "river pig") is a [[genus]] in the pig family ([[Suidae]]). The two species are restricted to [[sub-Saharan Africa]], although the bushpig, possibly due to [[introduced species|introduction]] by humans, also occurs in [[Madagascar]] and nearby [[island]]s. Early in the 20th century, there were considered to be as many as five different species within the genus. These were gradually consolidated, until, in the 1970s, it was generally agreed that all were representatives of just a single species (''P. porcus''). The bushpig was again recognised as a separate species from about 1993.<ref name=Leslie2015>{{cite journal | author = Leslie, D.M. | author2 = Huffman, B.A. | date = July 2015 | title = ''Potamochoerus porcus'' (Artiodactyla: Suidae) | journal = Mammalian Species | volume = 47 | issue = 919 | pages = 15–31 | doi = 10.1093/mspecies/sev002| doi-access = free }}</ref>


The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid [[Pliocene]] in Europe, and are first seen in Africa from least the mid [[Pleistocene]], suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia.<ref name=Leslie2015/> However, [[molecular phylogenetic]] evidence suggests that the genus first diverged from the line leading to the [[giant forest hog]] and the [[warthog]]s much earlier, in the late [[Miocene]], between 11.9 and 5.6 million years ago. The same studies suggest that the two living species diverged from one another between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago.<ref name=Gongora2011>{{cite journal | author = Gongora, J. | date = June 2011 | title = Rethinking the evolution of extant sub-Saharan African suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla) | journal = Zoologica Scripta | volume = 40 | issue = 4 | pages = 327–335 | doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00480.x|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid [[Pliocene]] in Europe, and are first seen in Africa from least the mid [[Pleistocene]], suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia.<ref name=Leslie2015/> However, [[molecular phylogenetic]] evidence suggests that the genus first diverged from the line leading to the [[giant forest hog]] and the [[warthog]]s much earlier, in the late [[Miocene]], between 11.9 and 5.6 million years ago. The same studies suggest that the two living species diverged from one another between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago.<ref name=Gongora2011>{{cite journal | author = Gongora, J. | date = June 2011 | title = Rethinking the evolution of extant sub-Saharan African suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla) | journal = Zoologica Scripta | volume = 40 | issue = 4 | pages = 327–335 | doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00480.x| s2cid = 82372059 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>


==Species==
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|[[File:Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) in the camp ... (31489633423).jpg|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus larvatus'' || [[Bushpig]]|| East and Southern Africa.
|[[File:Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) in the camp ... (31489633423).jpg|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus larvatus'' {{small|(F. Cuvier, 1822)}}|| [[Bushpig]]|| East and Southern Africa.
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|[[File:Laufendes Pinselohrschwein Zoo Landau.JPG|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus porcus'' ||[[Red river hog]]|| Guinean and Congolian forests
|[[File:Laufendes Pinselohrschwein Zoo Landau.JPG|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus porcus'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} ||[[Red river hog]]|| Guinean and Congolian forests
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[[Category:Mammal genera]]
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[[Category:Suids of Africa| ]]
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Latest revision as of 13:01, 22 June 2024

Potamochoerus
Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Subfamily: Suinae
Genus: Potamochoerus
Gray, 1854
Type species
Choiropotamus pictus
Species

Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)
†Potamochoerus magnus (A. Arribas & G. Garrido, 2008)
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Potamochoerus (meaning "river pig") is a genus in the pig family (Suidae). The two species are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, although the bushpig, possibly due to introduction by humans, also occurs in Madagascar and nearby islands. Early in the 20th century, there were considered to be as many as five different species within the genus. These were gradually consolidated, until, in the 1970s, it was generally agreed that all were representatives of just a single species (P. porcus). The bushpig was again recognised as a separate species from about 1993.[1]

The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid Pliocene in Europe, and are first seen in Africa from least the mid Pleistocene, suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia.[1] However, molecular phylogenetic evidence suggests that the genus first diverged from the line leading to the giant forest hog and the warthogs much earlier, in the late Miocene, between 11.9 and 5.6 million years ago. The same studies suggest that the two living species diverged from one another between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago.[2]

Species

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Extant species

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Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822) Bushpig East and Southern Africa.
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) Red river hog Guinean and Congolian forests

Fossils

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References

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  1. ^ a b Leslie, D.M.; Huffman, B.A. (July 2015). "Potamochoerus porcus (Artiodactyla: Suidae)". Mammalian Species. 47 (919): 15–31. doi:10.1093/mspecies/sev002.
  2. ^ Gongora, J.; et al. (June 2011). "Rethinking the evolution of extant sub-Saharan African suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla)". Zoologica Scripta. 40 (4): 327–335. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00480.x. S2CID 82372059.


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