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Desert Warthog
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas, 1766)
Also calledBabi-gembol gurun (ind) · Facocero del deserto (ita) · Facoquer de Somàlia (cat) · Facoquero del desierto (spa) · Facóquero oriental (spa) · Facόquero del desierto (spa) · Fakoker an dezerzh (bre) · Guziec pustynny (pol) · Javali do deserto (por) · Javali-africano-oriental (por) · Kaapse vlakvark (afr) · Kõrbe-tüügassiga (est) · Lợn bướu sa mạc (vie) · Ngiri (swa)
First described in: Misc. Zool. p.16
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. aethiopicus Pallas 1766 Subspecies Phacochoerus aethiopicus subsp. delamerei Lönnberg 1909
Order Artiodactyla
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Extinct as P. a. aethiopicus, Vulnerable as P. a. delamerei, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Order Artiodactyla
discussion
Discussion: For distinctions from P. africanus, see Ewer (1957) and Grubb (1993).
Order Artiodactyla
distribution
Distribution: Formerly in Cape Provinces, South Africa (extinct since ca. 1870 - 1890); NE Africa in E Ethiopia, N Kenya, and Somalia (Grubb, 1993; d'Huart and Grubb, 2001).
Order Artiodactyla
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441211.