Northern Chinese boar

Northern Chinese boar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Genus:	Sus
Species:	S. scrofa
Subspecies:	S. s. moupinensis
Trinomial name
	Sus scrofa moupinensis; Milne-Edwards, 1871
Synonyms
	Species synonymy acrocranius (Heude, 1892) ; chirodontus (Heude, 1888) ; chirodonticus (Heude, 1899) ; collinus (Heude, 1892) ; curtidens (Heude, 1892) ; dicrurus (Heude, 1888) ; flavescens (Heude, 1899) ; frontosus (Heude, 1892) ; laticeps (Heude, 1892) ; leucorhinus (Heude, 1888) ; melas (Heude, 1892) ; microdontus (Heude, 1892) ; oxyodontus (Heude, 1888) ; paludosus (Heude, 1892) ; palustris (Heude, 1888) ; planiceps (Heude, 1892) ; scrofoides (Heude, 1892) ; spatharius (Heude, 1892) ; taininensis (Heude,1888) ;

The northern Chinese boar (Sus scrofa moupinensis) is a subspecies of wild boar native to China and Vietnam. The subspecies was described by Alphonse Milne-Edwards in 1871.^[1] It also occurs in Sichuan. It is likely to be the ancestor of domestic pigs.^[2]

References

^ 1871.Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 7:93.(in French)
^ "Pig Domestication in Ancient China". September 12, 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2017.

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[1] 1871.Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 7:93.(in French)

[2] "Pig Domestication in Ancient China". September 12, 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2017.