Babyrousa babyrussa

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

ARTIODACTYLA

Family:

SUIDAE

Scientific Name:

Babyrousa babyrussa

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English	—	BABIROUSSA, BABIRUSA, DEER HOG
French	—	BABIROUSSA
Spanish	—	BABIRUSA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A1cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Pigs & Peccaries Specialist Group

History:

1986	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Indonesia

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
2.4	Invasive alien species (directly affecting the species) - Pathogens/parasites (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group. For more information, see the Asian Regional Sub Group website

Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Citation:	Pigs & Peccaries Specialist Group 1996. Babyrousa babyrussa. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 August 2008.
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