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{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}
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| name = ''Potamochoerus''
| image = Southern Bush Pig.jpg
| image_caption = [[Bushpig]] (''Potamochoerus larvatus'')
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| genus = '''''Potamochoerus'''''▼
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
''[[Potamochoerus larvatus]]'' <small>(F. Cuvier, 1822)</small><br>
†''[[Potamochoerus
''[[Potamochoerus porcus]]'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
| type_species = ''[[Potamochoerus porcus|Choiropotamus pictus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
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'''''Potamochoerus''''' (meaning "river pig") is a [[genus]] in the pig family ([[Suidae]]). The two species are restricted to [[
The oldest fossils that can be assigned to the genus date from the mid [[Pliocene]] in Europe, and are first seen in Africa from least the mid [[Pleistocene]], suggesting that it originally evolved in somewhere in Eurasia.<ref name=Leslie2015/> However, [[molecular phylogenetic]] evidence suggests that the genus first diverged from the line leading to the [[giant forest hog]] and the [[warthog]]s much earlier, in the late [[Miocene]], between 11.9 and 5.6 million years ago. The same studies suggest that the two living species diverged from one another between 4.8 and 0.2 million years ago.<ref name=Gongora2011>{{cite journal | author = Gongora, J. | date = June 2011 | title = Rethinking the evolution of extant sub-Saharan African suids (Suidae, Artiodactyla) | journal = Zoologica Scripta | volume = 40 | issue = 4 | pages = 327–335 | doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00480.x| s2cid = 82372059 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
==Species==
===Extant species===
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name!! Distribution
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|[[File:Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus) in the camp ... (31489633423).jpg|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus larvatus'' {{small|(F. Cuvier, 1822)}}|| [[Bushpig]]|| East and Southern Africa.
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|[[File:Laufendes Pinselohrschwein Zoo Landau.JPG|120px]] || ''Potamochoerus porcus'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} ||[[Red river hog]]|| Guinean and Congolian forests
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===Fossils===
==References==
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{{Artiodactyla|S.}}
{{Suina|Su.|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Fauna of Sub-Saharan Africa| ]]
[[Category:Suids of Africa| ]]
[[Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray]]
▲[[Category:Pigs]]
▲[[es:Potamochoerus]]
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