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White-lipped peccary (T. pecari) Catagonus. Chacoan peccary (C. wagneri) Dicotyles. Collared peccary (D. tajacu) The collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) or "musk hog", referring to the animal's scent glands, occurs from the Southwestern United States into South America and the island of Trinidad. The coat consists of wiry peppered black, gray ...
The collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed) mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America. It is the only member of the genus Dicotyles. They are commonly referred to as javelina, saíno, taitetu, or báquiro, although these terms are also used to describe other species in the ...
Catagonus stenocephalus is an extinct species of peccary that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in Brazil , Argentina and Bolivia . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is commonly known as the narrow-headed peccary due to its long and markedly convex rostrum.
Peccary: pig: Tupi: From pé ("path"), caa ("wood"), and ri ("many"), because of the paths through the forest that the animal creates [205] Pehuenchesuchus † sebecosuchid: Mapudungun: Named after the Pehuenche people, whose name means "people of the monkey puzzle tree", and suchus, the Greek name of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek. Pekania ...
Peccary (also javelina or skunk pig), a medium-sized hoofed mammal of the family Tayassuidae (New World pigs) in the suborder Suina Pecari , a genus of mammals in the peccary family, Tayassuidae Topics referred to by the same term
The order Artiodactyla consists of 349 extant species belonging to 132 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 132 genera can be grouped into 23 families; these families are grouped into named suborders and many are further grouped into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named subfamilies.
Collared peccary. The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans. Family: Tayassuidae (peccaries) Genus: Dicotyles
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