IRMNG - Potamochoerus Gray, 1854

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Potamochoerus Gray, 1854

IRMNG_ID

1036656 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1036656)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Suidae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Choiropotamus Gray, 1843 · unaccepted

Koiropotamus Gray, 1843 · unaccepted > nomen nudum

Nyctochoerus Heuglin, 1863 · unaccepted

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Species Potamochoerus larvatus (F. Cuvier, 1822)
Species Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 20, 1852
page(s): 131 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Choiropotamus Gray 1843 (Nomen. Zool.). Authority cited elsewhere as Gray, 1852 [1854] - Printed date is 1852...

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Choiropotamus Gray 1843 (Nomen. Zool.). Authority cited elsewhere as Gray, 1852 [1854] - Printed date is 1852 (Wilson & Reeder, 2005). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Potamochoerus Gray, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1036656 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (11)
Notes (2)

original description Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 20, 1852
page(s): 131 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Koiropotamus Gray, 1843) List Spec. Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus., 185 (as Choiropotamus; also as Koiropotamus p. xxvii). [details]

original description (of Nyctochoerus Heuglin, 1863) Nova Acta Caes. Leop. Carol., 30, no. 2, Nachtr.
page(s): 9 [details]

original description (of Choiropotamus Gray, 1843) List Spec. Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus., 185 (as Koiropotamus p. xxvii). [details]

From other sources

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Choiropotamus Gray 1843 (Nomen. Zool.). Authority cited elsewhere as Gray, 1852 [1854] - Printed date is 1852 (Wilson & Reeder, 2005). [details]

Type species as cited Choiropotamus pictus Gray, 1852 (= Sus porcus Linnaeus, 1758). [details]