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SPECIES Catagonus wagneri
Author: | Rusconi, 1930. | Citation: | An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia, 36: 231. | Common Name: | Chacoan Peccary | Type Locality: | Argentina, "Llajta-Maiica, tres leguas al noreste de Melero provincia de Santiago del Estero. Época moderna (precolombiana)".. | Distribution: | Gran Chaco of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Originally described from pre-Hispanic and subfossil remains; subsequently discovered alive (Wetzel et al., 1975; Wetzel, 1977, 1981). Reviewed by Mayer and Wetzel (1986, Mammalian Species, 259). |
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