Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795)

Pierre, Meshach A., Ignacio, Leroy & Paemelaere, Evi A. D., 2020, Large- and medium-bodied terrestrial mammals of the Upper Berbice region of Guyana, Check List 16 (5), pp. 1229-1237 : 1235

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.5.1229

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BB87F5-FFB7-FFCE-25C8-FE7A75E54343

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795)
status

 

Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795) View in CoL

Figure 6D

New record. GUYANA • East Berbice-Corentyne Re- gion (6); 04°43.82′N, 058°04.18′W; 14 Mar. 2016; cam- era trap photo GoogleMaps .

Identification. Identified by the white hair around its

jaw and large size relative to collared peccary ( Emmons and Feer 1997).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Tayassuidae

Genus

Tayassu

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