Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758) . 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.