Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 380

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Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:50.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, designated by Thomas (1911a: 140); however, Linnaeus's name Sus tajacu is evidently based on the tajacu of Marcgraf, from Pernambuco, Brazil; see Cabrera (1961:319) and Hershkovitz (1987b) .

DISTRIBUTION: N Argentina and NW Peru to NC Texas, SW New Mexico and Arizona ( USA). Introduced to Cuba.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Tayassu spp.

SYNONYMS: angulatus , bangsi, crassus, crusnigrum, humeralis , macrocephalus, minor, modestus, nanus , nelsoni, niger , nigrescens , patirà , sonoriensis, torquatus , torvus, yucatanensis.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Tayassuidae

Genus

Pecari

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Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758)

Peter Grubb 1993
1993
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Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758)

Linnaeus 1758: 50
1758
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