As mentioned previously, this male specimen came from Buru and was donated by G. Tet Zoo regular Ivan (aka Hai-Ren) - who, hopefully, who'll know for his blog The Lazy Lizard's Tales - was kind enough to send me photos of the stuffed Hairy babirusa on display at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Unfortunately babirusas from the adjacent eastern and south-eastern parts of Sulawesi remain unknown, so it is not possible to test whether or not they are particularly similar to B. Most workers think that the babirusas were introduced to these islands, and if this is so we don't know what their true place of origin was. babyrussa is from the Sula Islands (east of central Sulawesi) and Buru (just south-east of the Sula Islands). The upper canines tend to diverge or be subparallel, but they may be weakly convergent. The upper canines of males are short and slender and cross the lower canines in lateral view. The common names Golden babirusa and Hairy babirusa have been used lately for this species. babyrussa Linnaeus, 1758: a small species, with long, thick body hair and a well developed tail tuft. Here's how I characterised it in the previous article.ī. Accordingly, this is the type species for the genus Babyrousa: B. Somewhat ironically, it seems that babirusas of this sort were the first ones that became known to Europeans (or, the first ones that became known to Linnaeus, anyway). (2010) split white rhinos into two phylogenetic species.Īmong the most distinctive of the 'newly recognised' babirusa species is the Hairy or Golden babirusa. Coincidentally, I published an article on lumping vs splitting in extant mega-mammals only a few weeks before Groves et al. As you'll know if you read those articles, Meijaard & Groves (2002a, b) argued a few years ago that Babyrousa babyrussa of tradition should actually be split up into several phylogenetic species. I covered babirusas recently you might have noticed.
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