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Order ARTIODAGTYLA (even-toed ungulates) 



Suborder SUIFORMES 



Superfamily SUOIDEA 



Family Tayassuidae (peccaries) 



Genus PECARI Reichenbach (collared peccaries) 

 1775. Tagassu Frisch, Das Natur-System der vierfiissigen Thiere . . . , p. 3. 

 (Type, "Das amerikanische einzige Schwein-Geschlechte," or Sus tajacu 

 Linnaeus, 1758. See Palmer, North Amer. Fauna No. 23, p. 955, Jan. 23, 

 1904. Names applied to genera rejected, since Frisch is not consistently 

 binomial. See, Sherborn, Index animalium: . . . , sect. 1, p. xxv, 1902; 

 Thomas and Miller, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 16, pp. 461-464, 

 October 1905; and Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 3, p. 272, 

 Aug. 31, 1948.) 

 1835. Pecari Reichenbach. Bildergalerie der Thierwelt, . . . , Heft 6, p. 1. 

 (Type by monotypy, Sus torquatus Cuvier. See Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 27, p. 229, Dec. 29, 1914.) 



Pecari tajacu sonoriensis (Mearns) f * 



1897. Dicotyles angulatus sonoriensis Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new 



mammals of the genera Mephitis, Dorcelaphus, and Dicotyles, from the 



Mexican border of the United States, p. 3, Feb. 11, 1897. (Preprint of 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 469, Dec. 24, 1897.) 



1912. Pecari angulatus sonoriensis Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 383, 



Dec. 31, 1912. 

 1951. Pecari tajacu sonoriensis Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. 



Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 566, July 10, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — San Bernardino River, Sonora, Mexico, near monument No. 

 77, Mexican boundary. Range. — Southwestern New Mexico (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), p. 11, Mar. 1, 1932) and Arizona south 

 of Gila River southward through western Mexico to central Sinaloa; westward 

 in Arizona into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County (Huey, 

 Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, No. 32, p. 362, Feb. 17, 1942) . 



Pecari tajacu crassus (Merriam) f * 



1901. Tayassu angulatus crassus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



14, p. 124, July 19, 1901. 

 1912. Pecari angulatus crassus Miller. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 383, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 1951. Pecari tajacu crassus Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. 



Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 566, July 10, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — Metlatoyuca, Puebla, Mexico. Range. — From southeastern 

 San Luis Potosi southward through northeastern Queretaro, eastern Hidalgo, and 

 northeastern Puebla to southern Veracruz, Mexico. 



Pecari tajacu angulatus (Cope) * 



1884. Dicotyles tajacu True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 

 p. 591, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 



