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Tayassuidae Palmer 1897
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Description
Family TAYASSUIDAE
(PECCARIES)
• Medium-sized mammals with generally muscular body, large head, elongated, mobile snout ending with nostrils in flat cartilaginous disk, prominent, erect, and rounded ears, robust jaws with long canines, medium to long limbs, and vestigial tail.
• 80-140 cm.
• Nearctic and Neotropical Regions.
• Variety of habitats, including desert, thorn scrub, savanna, and dry and moist forests; from temperate to tropical zones.
• 3 genera, 3 species, 20 taxa.
• 1 species Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2011, Tayassuidae, pp. 292-307 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 2 Hoofed Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5720788
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tayassuidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Palmer
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tayassuidae Palmer, 1897 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2011