The Maremman boar (''Sus scrofa majori'') is a subspecies of

wild boar The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...

native to

Maremma The Maremma (, ; from Latin , "maritime and) is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea. It includes much of south-western Tuscany and part of northern Lazio. It was formerly mostly marshland, often malarial, bu ...

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. It is much smaller than the

Central European boar The Central European boar (''Sus scrofa scrofa'') is a subspecies of wild boar, currently distributed across almost all of mainland Europe, with the exception of some northern areas in both Scandinavia and European Russia and the southernmost par ...

and the two subspecies have been interbred on farms. Genetic studies (Larson et al. 2005) have confirmed that this taxon is a separate lineage from all other European wild boars.

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Mammals described in 1927 Mammals of Europe Suidae Wild boars {{Suidae-stub