Common warthog | |
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Male P. a. sundevallii Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa | |
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Female P. a. sundevallii Etosha National Park, Namibia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Suidae |
Genus: | Phacochoerus |
Species: | P. africanus
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Binomial name | |
Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin, 1788)
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Subspecies | |
4 sspp.; see text | |
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Distribution of the common warthog Possible range or accidental records |
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] In the past, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P. aethiopicus, but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.[3]