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--> FAMILY Tayassuidae
--> GENUS Tayassu
SPECIES Tayassu pecari
| Author: | Link, 1795. | | Citation: | Beitr. Naturgesch., 2: 104. | | Common Name: | White-lipped Peccary | | Type Locality: | No locality cited; identified as French Guiana, Cayenne (Hershkovitz, 1963). | | Distribution: | Mexico (E from Oaxaca and Veracruz) and all other Central American states; South America in N Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, W Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela. Introduced to Cuba. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Includes albirostris; see Husson (1978:353). Reviewed by Mayer and Wetzel (1987, Mammalian Species, 293). |
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