Tayassuidae, Palmer, 1897

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Tayassuidae

Two tayassuid species, the collared peccary ( Pecari tajacu ) and the white-lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari ), are definitely known to occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve. As currently recognized, both species occur throughout Amazonia, and no other tayassuids are expected in our region. Although a third Amazonian tayassuid, Pecari maximus , was recently described from the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve (Roosmalen et al., 2007) and was subsequently alleged to also occur

in Bolivia (near the Peruvian border; Moravec and Böhme, 2009), molecular sequence data suggest that P. maximus is not genetically distinct from the collared species ( Gongora et al., 2011).

The generic taxonomy of peccaries has been historically unstable. Husson (1978), for example, referred the white-lipped species to Dicotyles Cuvier, 1816 , and the collared species to Tayassu Fischer, 1814 , whereas previous authors (e.g., Cabrera, 1961) often referred both species to Tayassu . The current use of Pecari Reichenbach, 1835 , for the collared species ( Grubb, 2005) follows Miller (1912), whereas current usage of Tayassu for the white-lipped species follows Hershkovitz (1963). Although it is now widely agreed that the white-lipped and collared species should be placed in separate genera, and despite the fact that the binomina used below are now well established in the literature, it is only too likely that some future reinterpretation of the technical rules governing type species of genusgroup names ( ICZN, 1999: Chapter 15) will suggest different combinations.