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Taxonomy
Potamochoerus was named by Gray (1854). It is extant.
It was assigned to Potamochoerini by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Suidae by White and Harris (1977), Carroll (1988) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Suinae by Funk et al. (2007) and Bishop (2010).
It was assigned to Potamochoerini by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Suidae by White and Harris (1977), Carroll (1988) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Suinae by Funk et al. (2007) and Bishop (2010).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1852 | Choiropotamus Gray p. 281 |
| 1854 | Potamochoerus Gray p. 131 |
| 1977 | Potamochoerus White and Harris p. 13 |
| 1988 | Potamochoerus Carroll |
| 1997 | Potamochoerus McKenna and Bell p. 395 |
| 2007 | Potamochoerus Funk et al. p. 429 |
| 2008 | Potamochoerus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Potamochoerus Bishop p. 842 |
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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.
G. Potamochoerus Gray 1854
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Potamochoerus larvatus Cuvier 1822
Potamochoerus porcus Linnaeus 1758 [red river hog]
Invalid names: Choiropotamus Gray 1852 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available