Suina

The suborder Suina (also known Suiformes) contains perhaps the earliest and most archaic even-toed ungulates.

Suina
Potamochoerus porcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Suina Gray, 1868
Families
Suidae  Tayassuidae  Entelodontidae †  ?Merycoidodontidae †

Classification

This suborden Suina includes family Suidae (pigs, hogs) and the family Tayassuidae (peccaries). Older morphogical studies also identified family Hippopotamidae (hippos) among the Suina.

Suina Media

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  Cladogram of Cetacea within Artiodactyla (Camelus bactrianus)

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  Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères (Pl. 80) (white background)

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  Walia ibex illustration white background

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  Voyage en Abyssinie Plate 2 (white background)

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  Bowhead-Whale1

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  Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères (Pl. 80) (white background)

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  PotamochoerusAfricanusWolf white background

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  Babiroussa (white background)

Related pages

• Cetartiodactyla