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]
between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago. †Potamochoerus magnus Leslie, D.M.; Huffman, B.A. (July 2015). "Potamochoerus porcus (Artiodactyla: Suidae)". Mammalian...
The red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) or bushpig (a name also used for Potamochoerus larvatus) is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa,...
has information related to Potamochoerus larvatus. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Potamochoerus larvatus. Potamochoerus larvatus, Bushpig, Animal...
Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), harnessed bushbuck, red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) and plains zebra (Equus quagga). A survey in a rural area in...
species Genus Phacochoerus: two species Genus Porcula: one species Genus Potamochoerus: two species Genus Sus: nine species Family Tayassuidae (Peccaries)...
than the red river hog and the bushpig (the two members of the genus Potamochoerus), as males sometimes attack without warning, possibly to protect their...
population of over 100 individuals. Other herbivores include red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus), bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), bay duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis)...
Suidae related to the modern-day genera Hylochoerus, Phacochoerus, and Potamochoerus. It is believed that most of them inhabited African forests, as opposed...
to Pleistocene) Genus †Kolpochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene) Genus Potamochoerus (Miocene to recent) Genus †Propotamochoerus (Miocene to Pliocene) Tribe...
(2006). "Potamochoerus larvatus". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan. Retrieved March 26, 2021. Seydack, A. H. W. (2016). "Potamochoerus larvatus"...
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