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Sus scrofa hybrids

Puaka

Pig

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Image:	Modern pigs at fed-time	71KB
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Image:	'Near' Polynesain Pig (Mangaia)	83KB

General Information

COMMON NAMES: Pig

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Puaka (RR AT MK MT AK TS TW), Puaka / Ngolo (PK); Other Polynesian - Pua‘a (TAH), Pua‘a (HAW, ancient)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia - PNG; EXOTIC EXOTIC Melanesia and Polynesia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Polynesian + Recent, Naturalised; Land

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food(4+)

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
++++	P	++++	P	++?	P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
+++			++++

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Pests & Hosts

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Relationship	Pests
Parasite - internal	Trichuris suis,

Scientific Taxonomy

Sus scrofa hybrids (Linnaeus, 1758); Schlater, 1860
SYNONYMS: Sus scrofa [Groves 1981 suggestion that all pigs in Pacific are hybrids, accepted by Flannery 1994.]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); TETRAPODA; MAMMALIA; THERIA; EUTHERIA; Artiodactyla; Suiformes; Suinae; SUIDAE

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -. Comment: NBSAP - Takitumu (Puaka Maori, 2 of 3 domestic), NBSAP - Atiu (1 of 5 domestic)
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Food(4+). Comments: NBSAP - Atiu (2 of 4 wild pests) One of world's 100 invasive alien species [ISSG,2001].

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Pukapuka: fieldspecimen, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Sus scrofa hybrids.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM04a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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