#0240 · 🦊 mammals
Common Warthog
🇳🇱 Knobbelzwijn ·Phacochoerus africanus
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what is it?
The common warthog ( Phacochoerus africanus ) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P. aethiopicus , but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 16,208 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Warthog
- Nederlands
- Knobbelzwijn
- scientific name
- Phacochoerus africanus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Suidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 16,208
- GBIF records in NL
- 9
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Suidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42122, Wikidata Q183255, GBIF 2441212, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.