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SPECIES Pecari tajacu
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 50. | Common Name: | Collared Peccary | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Mexici, Panamae, Brasiliae montibus, sylvis". Mexico selected by Thomas (1911a:140); however, Linnaeus's name Sus tajacu is based on the tajacu of Marcgraf, from Brazil, Pernambuco (Cabrera, 1961:319; Hershkovitz, 1963, 1987b) and this restriction of the type locality is adopted here. | Distribution: | USA (mainly in Arizona and Texas), Mexico (outside the Sierra Madre), and all other Central American states; South America in N Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad, and Venezuela. Introduced to Cuba. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II (populations in the USA and Mexico not covered by CITES); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | |
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