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Type Locality. — Cozumel Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Range. — Cozumel 

 Island. 



Pecari tajacu nigrescens Goldmanf * 



1926. Pecari angulatus nigrescens Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 39, p. 49, July 30, 1926. (Regarded as identical with nelsoni by 



Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, 



p. 566, July 10, 1951.) 



Type Locality. — Chamelecon, Cortes, Honduras. Range. — Northwestern 



Honduras to northern Guatemala and eastern Quintana Roo, Mexico. 



Pecari tajacu crusniger (Bangs) 



1902. Tayassu crusnigrum Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 39, p. 20, April 



1902. 

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



1912. 

 1920. Pecari angulatus crusnigrum Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, 



No. 5, p. 72, Apr. 26, 1920. 

 1937. Pecari angulatus crusniger Bole, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 7, p. 186, Aug. 31, 1937. 

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



Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 567, July 10, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. Altitude, 4,000 feet. Range. — 

 Highlands of western Panama and most of Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 446, Dec. 31, 1946) . 



Pecari tajacu bangsi Goldmanf* 



1917. Pecari angulatus bangsi Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, 



p. 109, May 23, 1917. 

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



Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 567, July 10, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — Boca de Cupe, Darien, eastern Panama. Altitude, 250 feet. 

 Range. — From eastern Darien, Panama, westward to at least Gatun, Canal Zone 

 (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, p. 73, Apr. 26, 1920). 



Genus TAYASSU G. Fischer (white-lipped peccaries) 

 1814. Tayassu G. Fisher, Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata, . . . , vol. 

 3, p. 284. (Type by tautonomy, Tayassu pecari Fischer. Tayassu Fischer 

 and Pecari Reichenbach regarded as congeneric by Tate, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 76, p. 223, Oct. 20, 1939. For use of this name in place of 

 Dicotyles G. Cuvier, see Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 174, 

 June 9, 1897; and Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, p. 229, 

 Dec. 29, 1914.) 

 1817. Dicotyles G. Cuvier, Le regne animal . . . , vol. 1, p. 237. (Type, by 

 subsequent designation, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pt. 1, p. 45, 

 May 1868, Dicotyles labiatus G. Cuvier = Tayassu pecari Fischer.) 

 1901. Olidosus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 120, July 19, 

 1901. (Type, Sus albirostris Illiger =Tayassu pecari Fischer.) 



