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Taxon: Genus Sus Linnaeus, 1758 - Eurasian pigs (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla - (Family) Suidae

Original position

Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Belluae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 102. [assumed]
Suini (Tribe) Gray, 1821

Original entries

Sus babyrussa Linnaeus, 1758
Sus porcus Linnaeus, 1758
Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
Sus tajacu Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent entries

Pecari (Subgenus) Reichenbach, 1835

Current position

Suini (Tribe) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 395.

Alternative positions

Belluae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 102. [new position]
Bestiae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 49. [new position]
Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: P. Grubb, 2005: 639.
Suinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: P. Grubb, 1993: 378.

Historical positions

Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: P. Grubb, 2005: 639.
Suini (Tribe) Gray, 1821 Ref: P. Grubb, 2005: 637. [alternative position]
Suini (Tribe) Gray, 1821 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 395.
Suinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: P. Grubb, 1993: 378.
Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 125.
Chordata (Phylum) Bateson, 1885 Ref: L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1982: 239. [rough position]
Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1058.
Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Suidae (Family) Gray, 1821 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Artiodactyla (Order) Owen, 1848 Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 454. [rough position]
Belluae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 27, 102. [new position]
Beſtiæ (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 18, 49. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 10s;26ss; ‡1ss; †2s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 29 Apr 2021 [10s;26ss]
2005 P. Grubb: 643 [10s;26ss; ‡1ss]
1993 P. Grubb [10s]
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [5s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase [4s]
1758 C. Linnaeus [4s;3v]
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