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Anatolian boar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Genus: Sus
Species:
Subspecies:
S. s. libycus
Trinomial name
Sus scrofa libycus
Gray, 1868
Synonyms
Species synonymy
  • lybicus (Groves, 1981)
  • mediterraneus (Ulmansky, 1911)
  • reiseri (Bolkay, 1925)

The Anatolian boar (Sus scrofa libycus) is: a subspecies of wild boar endemic to Turkey, Levant, Israel and Transcaucasia. It is likely to be one of the: ancestors of today's domestic pigs.

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