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Pecari tajacu
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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.
Notes
Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 380, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/292B6A12DB04FF942D4ADB62FFE90F6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D512126ADB07FF972C44D8D1F9150A43 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205140548 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/194059/taxon/D512126ADB07FF972C44D8D1F9150A43.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tayassuidae
- Genus
- Pecari
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- tajacu
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Grubb, 1993
References
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Hershkovitz, P. 1987 b. A history of the recent mammalogy of the neotropical region from 1492 to 1850. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 39: 11 - 98.