Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus 1758)

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Pecari tajacu (Linnaeus 1758)

[Sus] tajacu Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 50 .

Type Locality: "Habitat in Mexici, Panamae, Brasiliae montibus, sylvis". Mexico selected by Thomas (1911 a:140); however, Linnaeus's name Sus tajacu is based on the tajacu of Marcgraf, from Brazil, Pernambuco (Cabrera, 1961:319; Hershkovitz, 1963, 1987 b) and this restriction of the type locality is adopted here .

Vernacular Names: Collared Peccary.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. tajacu Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. angulatus Cope 1889

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. bangsi Goldman 1917

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. crassus Merriam 1901

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. crusnigrum Bangs 1902

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. humeralis Merriam 1901

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. nanus Merriam 1901

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. nelsoni Goldman 1926

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. niger J. A. Allen 1913

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. nigrescens Goldman 1926

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. patira Kerr 1792

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. sonoriensis Mearns 1897

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. torvus Bangs 1898

Subspecies Pecari tajacu subsp. yucatanensis Merriam 1901

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.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II (populations in the USA and Mexico not covered by CITES); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).