Domestic pig
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Domestic pig | |
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A domestic pig an her piglet | |
Domesticatit
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Scienteefic clessification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Suidae |
Genus: | Sus |
Species: | S. scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 |
Subspecies: | S. s. domesticus |
Trinomial name | |
Sus scrofa domesticus Erxleben, 1777 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus or Sus domesticus), whiles cried swine or hog, is a lairge, even-taed ungulate; it is considered a subspecies o the wild boar or a distinct species.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Colin P. Groves (1995). "On the nomenclature of domestic animals" (PDF). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52 (2): 137–141. Biodiversity Heritage Library