Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Suidae
Synonym: Phacochoeridae Gray 1868
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Suoidea according to J.-R. Boisserie et al. 2010
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Andrews 1906, Anyonge 1991, Bishop 2010, Boisserie et al. 2005, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Codrea et al. 1991, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Geraads 2017, Gray 1821, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Leidy 1873, Liping et al. 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Orliac et al. 2006, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Spaulding et al. 2009, Theodorou et al. 2003, Thewissen et al. 2001, Thomas 1904 and Ursing et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Doliochoerus, Egatochoerus, Odoichoerus, Palaeochoeridae, Palaeochoerus, Sanitheriidae, Schizochoerus, Suina, Taucanamo
Subtaxa: Babyrousinae Cainochoerinae Chaeropotamina Dinochoerus Eocenchoerus Eumaiochoerus Gerontochoerus Hemichoerus Hippopotamodon Hyosus Hyotheriinae Kubanochoerinae Kubanochoerus Listriodontinae Lophochoerus Mabokopithecus Mesochoerus Microstonyx Namachoerinae Palaeochoerinae Paradoxodonides Promesochoerus Pronotochoerus Schizochoerinae Suinae Tetraconodontinae
Type: Sus
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore