Maremman boar

The Maremman boar (Sus scrofa majori) is a subspecies of wild boar native to Maremma in Central Italy. It is much smaller than the Central European boar and the two subspecies have been interbred on farms.

Maremman boar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Suidae
Genus:	Sus
Species:	S. scrofa
Subspecies:	S. s. majori
Trinomial name
Sus scrofa majori de Beaux and Festa [it], 1927 [1]

Genetic studies (Larson et al. 2005) have confirmed that this taxon is a separate lineage from all other European wild boars.^[2]