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Pecari tajacu (collared peccary)

Mammalia - Tayassuidae

Taxonomy

Sus tajacu was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Tayassu tajacu by Hay (1902), Thomas (1911), Wetzel (1977), Gasparini (2013); it was recombined as Dicotyles tajacu by Woodburne (1968), Woodburne (1969), Wright (1989), Wright (1993); it was recombined as Pecari tajacu by Miller (1912), Wilson and Reeder (1993), Theimer and Keim (1998), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Dutra et al. (2017).

Synonyms

Waldochoerus bassleri was named by Frailey and Campbell (2012). Its type specimen is LACM 154877, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is LACM 7526, which is in a Quaternary fluvial conglomerate in Peru. It is the type species of Waldochoerus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Dicotyles tajacu by Gasparini et al. (2021).
Muknalia minima was named by Stinnesbeck et al. (2017). Its type specimen is PQR2011-PALMAS-V-1, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Muknal, which is in a Pleistocene/Holocene cave horizon in Mexico.

It was synonymized objectively with Pecari tajacu by Schubert et al. (2020).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Sus tajacu Linnaeus p. 50
1902	Tayassu tajacu Hay p. 659
1911	Tayassu tajacu Thomas p. 140
1912	Pecari tajacu Miller
1968	Dicotyles tajacu Woodburne
1969	Dicotyles tajacu Woodburne p. 122
1977	Tayassu tajacu Wetzel
1989	Dicotyles tajacu Wright
1993	Pecari tajacu Wilson and Reeder
1993	Dicotyles tajacu Wright
1998	Pecari tajacu Theimer and Keim
2008	Pecari tajacu Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5
2012	Waldochoerus bassleri Frailey and Campbell
2013	Tayassu tajacu Gasparini p. 58
2017	Pecari tajacu Dutra et al. p. 353
2017	Muknalia minima Stinnesbeck et al. p. 344

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
superfamily	Suoidea
—	Suina	(Gray 1868)
family	Tayassuidae
subfamily	Tayassuinae	Palmer 1897
tribe	Tayassuini
genus	Pecari	Reichenbach 1835
species	tajacu	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 [collared peccary]

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Invalid names: Muknalia minima Stinnesbeck et al. 2017 [objective synonym], Waldochoerus bassleri Frailey and Campbell 2012 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available