| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Artiodactyla
- ---- family: Suidae
- ----- species: Potamochoerus larvatus
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| Characteristics: | omnivore; height: 60-100 cm; very hairy, grey-brown body; the mane and the upper parts of the face are lighter in colour; the snout is blunt and muscular; the tusks are small but very sharp; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0115
- Knysna-Amatole montane forests
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 94 |
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