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

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

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
superfamilySuoidea
Suina(Gray 1868)
familyTayassuidae
subfamilyTayassuinaePalmer 1897
tribeTayassuini
genusPecariReichenbach 1835
speciestajacu()

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: Waldochoerus bassleri Frailey and Campbell 2012 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available