Suinae
Subfamily of mammals
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Classification
In their 1997 Classification of Mammals, Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell classify the Suinae as:
- Tribe Suini
- Tribe Potamochoerini
- Genus †Celebochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene)
- Genus †Kolpochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene)
- Genus Potamochoerus (Miocene to recent)
- Genus †Propotamochoerus (Miocene to Pliocene)
- Tribe †Hippohyini
- Genus †Hippohyus (Pliocene)
- Genus †Sinohyus (Pliocene)
- Genus †Sivahyus (Pliocene)
- Tribe Phacochoerini
- Genus †Metridiochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene)
- Genus Phacochoerus (Pliocene to recent)
- Genus Hylochoerus (Pleistocene to recent)
- Genus †Potamochoeroides (Pliocene, possibly Pleistocene)
- Genus †Stylochoerus (Pleistocene)
- Tribe Babyrousini
- Genus Babyrousa (Pleistocene to recent)
In the 2005 third edition of Mammal Species of the World, which treats only recent forms, Peter Grubb followed this classification. The recent forms are wild boars, domestic pigs, and pygmy hogs together in one tribe, with warthogs, a genus of African pigs, and a genus of pigs from the islands of Wallacea each representing a separate clade.
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Literature cited
- Grubb, P. 2005. Order Artiodactyla. Pp. 637–722 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
- McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6
- Orliac, M.J., Antoine, P.-O. and Ducrocq, S. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the Suidae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla): new insights on the relationships within Suoidea (subscription required). Zoologica Scripta 39:315–330.
- Van der Made, J. 2010. The pigs and "Old World peccaries" (Suidae and Palaeochoeridae, Suoidea, Artiodactyla) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany): phylogeny and an updated classification of the Hyotheriinae and Palaeochoeridae (subscription required). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84:43–121.
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