Palawan Bearded Pig
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| Palawan Bearded Pig | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Suidae |
| Genus: | Sus |
| Species: | S. ahoenobarbus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sus ahoenobarbus Huet, 1888 |
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The Palawan Bearded Pig (Sus ahoenobarbus) is a species of pig endemic to the Philippines, where they can only be found on the archipelago of islands formed by Balabac, Palawan and the Calamian Islands. They are 1 to 1.6 metres (3.3 to 5.2 ft) in length, about 1 metre (3.3 ft) tall and weigh up to 150 kilograms (330 lb).
Until recently it was considered a subspecies of the Bearded Pig (Sus barbatus), but at least under the phylogenetic species concept it must be classified as a separate species. For its treatment under other (and more widely used) species concepts, more study is required, but the presently available information seems to argue for full species status in any case.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Oliver, W. (2008). Sus ahoenobarbus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 November 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
- ^ Lucchini, Meijaard, Diong, Groves and Randi (2005). New phylogenetic perspectives among species of South-east Asian wild pig (Sus sp.) based on mtDNA sequences and morphometric data. J. Zool., Lond. 266: 25–35
