Japanese boar
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The Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax), also known as the white-moustached pig,[2] nihon-inoshishi (ニホンイノシシ),[3] or yama kujira (山鯨, lit. "mountain whale"),[3] is a subspecies of wild boar native to all of Japan, apart for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands.
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Japanese boar | |
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S. s. leucomystax, Tama zoo | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Suidae |
Genus: | Sus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | S. s. leucomystax |
Trinomial name | |
Sus scrofa leucomystax Temminck, 1842 | |
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