Tayassu pecari (Link 1795)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 644

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scientific name	Tayassu pecari (Link 1795)
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[Sus] pecari Link 1795 , Beitr. Naturgesch., 2: 104.

Type Locality: No locality cited; identified as French Guiana, Cayenne ( Hershkovitz, 1963).

Vernacular Names: White-lipped Peccary.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tayassu pecari subsp. pecari Link 1795

Subspecies Tayassu pecari subsp. aequatoris Lönnberg 1921

Subspecies Tayassu pecari subsp. albirostris Illiger 1815

Subspecies Tayassu pecari subsp. ringens Merriam 1901

Subspecies Tayassu pecari subsp. spiradens Goldman 1912

Distribution: Mexico (E from Oaxaca and Veracruz) and all other Central American states; South America in N Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, W Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela. Introduced to Cuba.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes albirostris ; see Husson (1978:353). Reviewed by Mayer and Wetzel (1987, Mammalian Species, 293).