Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758

Pereira, Alan Deivid, Bazilio, Sergio & Orsi, Mário Luís, 2018, Checklist of medium-sized to large mammals of Campos Gerais National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Check List 14 (5), pp. 785-799 : 794

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/14.5.785

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/79763466-FFD0-FF8A-C622-FA5DFC63F847

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Marcus

scientific name

Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758
status

 

Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

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Records. First record was on May 5, 2013, camera trap 16 (25°03.37ʹ S, 049°58.43ʹ W) and subsequently in the monitoring sites (camera traps 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, see Fig. 1 for coordinates).

Identification. Sus scrofa is a swine native to Europe, Africa and Asia. Featuring great individual variations in body size and pelage color, it was introduced in the area under analysis. Although S. scrofa may be confused with P. tajacu , the species is usually larger.

Primates

Cebidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Suidae

Genus

Sus

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