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GENUS Pecari

Author:Reichenbach, 1835.
Citation:Bildergalerie der Thierwelt, part 6: 1.
Type Species:Dicotyles torquatus Cuvier, 1816 (= Sus tajacu Linnaeus, 1758).
Comments:The Collared Peccary should be assigned to a separate genus from the White-lipped 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 (Miller and Rehn, 1901:12; Miller, 1912b:384). Notophorus and Adenonotus are obscure names now categorized as nomina oblita (Article 23.9, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999), so the valid generic name for Collared Peccaries is Pecari, with type by monotypy Dicotyles torquatus.
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SPECIES tajacu

SUBSPECIES tajacu

SUBSPECIES angulatus

SUBSPECIES bangsi

SUBSPECIES crassus

SUBSPECIES crusnigrum

SUBSPECIES humeralis

SUBSPECIES nanus

SUBSPECIES nelsoni

SUBSPECIES niger

SUBSPECIES nigrescens

SUBSPECIES patira

SUBSPECIES sonoriensis

SUBSPECIES torvus

SUBSPECIES yucatanensis

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