Suina

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Suina
Temporal range:
Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Clade: Artiofabula
Suborder: Suina
Gray, 1868
Genera and families

Suina (also known as Suiformes) is a

Heude's pig, is considered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
to have gone extinct in the 20th century.

Classification

Suina's placement within

Artiodactyla can be represented in the following cladogram:[1][2][3][4][5]

Artiodactyla
 

Tylopoda (camels)

 Artiofabula 

  Suina (pigs)

 Cetruminantia 

 

Ruminantia (ruminants)
 

 
Cetancodonta/Whippomorpha
 

 Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses)

 Cetacea (whales)

The suborder Suina consists of 21

Heude's pig
, went extinct in the 20th century.

  • Family Suidae (Pigs)
    • Genus
      Babyrousa
      : four species
    • Genus
      Hylochoerus
      : one species
    • Genus
      Phacochoerus
      : two species
    • Genus
      Porcula
      : one species
    • Genus Potamochoerus: two species
    • Genus Sus: nine species
  • Family
    Tayassuidae
    (Peccaries)
    • Genus Catagonus: one species
    • Genus
      Dicotyles
      : one species
    • Genus
      Tayassu
      : one species
Suina  
Suidae  

Sus

Porcula

Potamochoerus

Hylochoerus

Phacochoerus

Babyrousa

Tayassuidae
  

Dicotyles

Tayassu

Catagonus

References

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