hog badger

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| image = Arctonyx-collaris-hog-badger.jpg

| image_caption = A. collaris

| taxon = Arctonyx

| authority = Cuvier, 1825

| type_species = Arctonyx collaris

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * A. albogularis

A. collaris
A. hoevenii

| range_map = Hog Badger area.png

| range_map_caption = Distribution of the genus Arctonyx

}}

Hog badgers are three species of mustelid in the genus Arctonyx. They represent one of the two genera in the subfamily Melinae, alongside the true badgers (genus Meles).

Taxonomy

Arctonyx was formerly considered a monotypic genus containing one species, A. collaris, but a 2008 study found it to comprise 3 distinct species, a finding later followed by the American Society of Mammalogists.{{Cite journal|last1=Helgen|first1=Kristofer M.|last2=Lim|first2=Norman T.-L.|last3=Helgen|first3=Lauren E.|date=2008|title=The hog-badger is not an edentate: systematics and evolution of the genus Arctonyx (Mammalia: Mustelidae)|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=154|issue=2|pages=353–385|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00416.x|issn=1096-3642|pmc=7107037|pmid=32287392}}{{Cite mdd|genus=Arctonyx|access-date=2021-06-25}}

Species

Three species are known:

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
class="wikitable"
	Northern hog badger (A. albogularis)	South and East Asia.
120px	Greater hog badger (A. collaris)	Southeast Asia.
	Sumatran hog badger (A. hoevenii)	Sumatra in Indonesia.

Conservation

The IUCN considers the greater hog badger (A. collaris), the northern hog badger (A. albogularis) and the Sumatran hog badger (A. hoevenii) as three separate species. The greater hog badger is listed as a Vulnerable species. The other two are listed as Least Concern.{{Cite iucn|author=Helgen, K. |author2= Chan, B. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016|title= Arctonyx albogularis |page= e.T70206273A70206436 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T70206273A70206436.en|access-date=16 December 2019}}{{Cite iucn|author=Holden, J.|author2= Helgen, K.|author3= Shepherd, C. |author4= McCarthy, J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016|title= Arctonyx hoevenii |page=e.T70205771A70205927|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T70205771A70205927.en|access-date=16 December 2019}}

References

Category:Badgers