Taxonomy

According to G.K (4.10.22), “Animals are multicellular organisms composed of eukaryotic cells. The cells are organized into tissues and lack cell walls. They do not carry out photosynthesis and obtain nutrients primarily by ingestion. Examples include sponges, worms, insects, and vertebrates.”

The phylum Chordata consists of animals with structures supporting their dorsal, or back, sides. Most species within the phylum Chordata are vertebrates, or animals with backbones.

Mammalia, or more commonly known as mammals, are any of the groups of vertebrate animals where the young are fed with milk from special mammary glands of the mother. Some more distinguishable features are : have hair or fur; are warm-blooded; most are born alive; the young are fed milk produced by the mother's mammary glands; and they have a more complex brain than other animals.

The structure of the foot is especially diagnostic. Most species have either 2 or 4 toes on each foot (except for Pecari and Tayassu).The artiodactyls are paraxonic except for some exceptions (pigs and peccaries), most artiodactyls are herbivores, consisting of browsers, grazers and mixed feeders.

The Suidae family is a group of mammals that includes pigs, hogs, and swine. This family is made up of 18 species, which are classified into between four and eight different genera. The genus Sus includes the domestic pig, as well as many species of wild pig from Europe to the Pacific. Other genera within this family include babirusas and warthogs. All members of the Suidae family are native to the Old World, meaning they are found in Asia, Europe, and Africa.

The pig (Sus domesticus), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus Sus, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. Because they are biologically similar to humans, pigs are often used in medical research.

Sus is Latin, meaning a pig. The species name cebifrons is likely a combination of Cebu (the island on which the type specimen was collected), and the Latin word frons, meaning the forehead or brow, a reference to the long mane and forehead tuft. Although now extinct on the island of Cebu, S. cebifrons is sometimes called the Cebu bearded pig as a result of the provenance of the type specimen.