Malayan pigs: a recent zoological paper. G.S. Miller’s notes on Malayan pigs
C. Boden Kloss’s brief review of G. S. Miller’s “Notes on Malayan Pigs,” published in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Vol. 49, 1907), summarises the taxonomic revisions and new species descriptions contained in Miller’s zoological paper.
Summary
Kloss outlines Miller’s principal contributions: the description of Sus gargantua from south-eastern Borneo as the largest known living pig (skull length 570 mm in a young adult), the separation of the Peninsular wild pig from the Indian Sus cristatus under the name Sus jubatus, and the erection of Sus jubatulus from Pulo Teratau. The review also notes the recognition of Sus peninsularis from Johore (and presumably Singapore), Sus rhionis from the Riau Archipelago, and several new island species from the West Sumatra chain (S. niadensis, S. babi, S. minus), the Natunas (S. natunensis), and Great Nicobar (S. nicoboricus). Kloss expresses some reservation about Miller’s decision to separate jubatulus on the basis of a single specimen from a small island close to the mainland (p. 68). The paper is noted as containing full descriptions, identification keys, measurements, and numerous plates of skulls and mandibular teeth (p. 69).