Pecari tajacu ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 41

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5480842
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scientific name	Pecari tajacu ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Pecari tajacu ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL : Figure 7

Sus tajacu Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL .

Tayassu tajacu Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL .

Pecari tajacu View in CoL — Tirira 2007, Gongora et al. 2011.

Pecari maximus M. van Roosmalen et al. 2007 .

Material examined: Table 1.

Back color blackish gray uniform, usually with numerous hairs with white tips, which give it a fleshy appearance; presents a strip of cream-colored hair that is pale to white, like a necklace, which starts on the lower part of the cheeks extending back through the neck, and ends at the top of the shoulders ( Tirira 2007).

References

Gongora J, Reyna-Hurtado R, Beck H, Taber A, Altrichter M, Keuroghlian A (2011) Pecari tajacu. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e. T 41777 A 10562361. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / iucn. uk. 2011 - 2. rlts. t 41777 a 10562361. en

Linnaeus C (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Salvius, Holmiae, 824 pp.

Tirira DS (2007) Guia de Campo de los Mamiferos del Ecuador. Publicacion especial sobre los mamiferos del Ecuador 6. Ediciones Murcielago Blanco, Quito, 576 pp.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Artiodactyla
Family	Tayassuidae
Genus	Pecari