Japanese boar
| Japanese boar | |
|---|---|
| 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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The Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax), also known as the white-moustached pig, nihon-inoshishi (ニホンイノシシ), or yama kujira (山鯨, lit. "mountain whale"), is a subspecies of wild boar native to all of Japan, apart for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands.