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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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