Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795) . Beitr. Naturgesch., 2: 104.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne .

DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca and Veracruz (Mexico) to W. Ecuador, Brazil and N. E. Argentina.

COMMENT: Includes albirostris; see Husson, 1978, The Mammals of Suriname, p. 353.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419002001001001 as T. albirostris .