Oliver's Warty Pig

Oliver's Warty Pig (Mindoro Warty Pig)
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Subfamily:	Suinae
Genus:	Sus
Species:	Sus oliveri
Binomial name
Sus oliveri Groves, 1997

Oliver's Warty Pig (Sus oliveri), or Mindoro Warty Pig is a small species of pig which can only be found on the island of Mindoro in the Central Philippines. This species previously treated to be a subspecies of S. philippensis, was shown to be morphologically and genetically different.^[2][3][4]

This species is heavily hunted and is extremely rare.

See also

• Wild Pigs of the Philippines
• Philippine Warty Pig

External links

• Classification on Animal Diversity
• Ungulates of the world - Sus oliveri on list
• [1]

References

1. ^ (2008). Sus oliveri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of endangered.
2. ^ Grubb, P. 2005. Order Artiodactyla. Pp. 637-722 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed.
3. ^ Groves, C.P. 1997. Taxonomy of wild pigs (Sus) of the Philippines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120:163-191.
4. ^ Lucchini, V., Meijaard, E., Diong, C. H., Groves, C. P. & Randi, E. 2005. New phylogenetic perspectives among species of South-east Asian wild pig (Sus sp.) based on mtDNA sequences and morphometric data. Journal of Zoology 266, 25-35.