Pecari Reichenbach, 1835

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 Reichenbach, 1835 View in CoL . Bildergalerie der Thierwelt, part 6, p. 1.

TYPE SPECIES: Dicotyles torquatus Cuvier, 1816 (= Sus tajacu Linnaeus, 1758 ).

SYNONYMS: Notophorus .

COMMENTS: The Collared Peccary should be assigned to a separate genus from the Whitelipped species according to Woodburne (1968), Husson (1978:347-348), and Wright (1989). Use of appropriate generic names for these taxa is controversial. Genotypes of Tayassu and Dicotyles by subsequent designation are White-lipped Peccaries, see Miller and Rehn (1901:12), and Miller (1912b:384), so the correct generic name for Collared Peccaries appears to be Pecari, with type by monotypy Dicotyles torquatus.