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Monotypic taxon:
Genus
Tayassu
Fischer de Waldheim, 1814
- collared and white-lipped peccaries
(mammal)
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Entity:
Tayassuinae (Subfamily)
..†Argyrohyus (Genus)
..†Brasiliochoerus (Genus)
..Catagonus (Genus) - Chacoan peccary
..†Chaenohyus (Genus)
..†Cynorca (Genus)
..†Dyseohyus (Genus)
..†Egatochoerus (Genus)
..†Hesperhys (Genus)
..†Mylohyus (Genus)
..Pecari (Genus)
..†Perchoerus (Genus)
..†Platygonus (Genus)
..†Prosthennops (Genus)
..†Thinohyus (Genus)
..Tayassu (Genus) - collared and white-lipped peccaries
....Tayassu pecari (Species) - white-lipped peccary
Authorship
Original name
:
Fischer de Waldheim, G. 1814:284.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
Tayassuinae
(Subfamily)
Palmer, 1897
Type, by synonymy
:
Tayassu pecari
(Link, 1795)
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Dicotyles
(Genus)
Cuvier, 1817
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
: 126.
Synonymous name
:
Sylvochoerus
(Genus)
Frailey & Campbell, 2012
Ref:
PBDB
: 22 Mar 2021.
Including
:
Pecari
(Genus)
(Reichenbach, 1835)
Including
:
Pecari
(Subgenus)
Reichenbach, 1835
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
pekari's
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
collared and white-lipped peccaries
:
javelinas
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