Sus scrofa skull

3D Model

This is a skull of a Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758, the wild boar or Eurasian boar. It can be distinguished from its domesticated relative, the pig, Sus domesticus Erxleben, 1777 by the almost straight maxilla and frontal bones. In Sus domesticus these form a characteristic curvature.

This sample dates back to the end of XIX Century and belonged to the collections of the Comparative Anatomy Institute of the Genoa University, now curated by DISTAV.

This model was realized by Glenda Cantale during the Universal Civil Service (SCU) at the Genoa University.