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Sus scrofa (wild boar)

Mammalia - Suidae

Taxonomy
Sus scrofa was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Sus scrofa Linnaeus p. 49
1860Sus scrofa Leidy p. 109
1902Sus scrofa Hay p. 661
1911Sus scrofa Thomas p. 140
1927Sus scrofa Boule and De Villeneuve p. 38
1995Sus scrofa Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 250
2007Sus scrofa Funk et al. p. 427

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
superfamilySuoidea
familySuidae
subfamilySuinaeGray 1821
genusSus
speciesscrofa

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 [wild boar]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available