Indo-chinese Warty Pig

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Indo-chinese Warty Pig
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Genus: Sus
Species: S. bucculentus
Binomial name
Sus bucculentus
Heude, 1892

The Indo-chinese Warty Pig (Sus bucculentus), also known as the or Vietnam Warty Pig or the Heude's Pig, is a species of even-toed ungulate in the Suidae family. It is found in Laos and Vietnam. It is virtually unknown and was feared extinct, until the discovery of a skull from a recently killed individual in the Annamite Range, Laos, in 1995.

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