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Tayassu pecari  (Link, 1795)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 552762

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Pecari labios blancos [Spanish]
  
    white-lipped peccary [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumChordata  -- chordates, cordado, cordés  
       SubphylumVertebrata  -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés  
          ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 -- mamífero, mammals, mammifères  
             SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                   OrderArtiodactyla Owen, 1841 -- artiodactyls, cloven-hoofed ungulates, even-toed ungulates, porco do mato, veado  
                      FamilyTayassuidae Palmer, 1897 -- peccaries  
                         GenusTayassu G. Fischer, 1814 -- peccaries  
                            SpeciesTayassu pecari (Link, 1795) -- Pecari labios blancos, white-lipped peccary  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Tayassu pecari   
       
  Expert: Peter Grubb  
  Notes: 35 Downhills Park Road, London N17 6PE, England   
  Reference for: Tayassu pecari   
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2001   
  Notes: CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)   
  Reference for: Pecari labios blancos [Spanish]   
       
  Source: Mammal Species of the World, website (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 1998   
  Notes: http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw/   
  Reference for: Tayassu pecari   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Tayassu pecari   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Tayassu pecari, white-lipped peccary   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Caribbean  
    Middle America  
    North America  
    South America  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Continental US, Native  
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: CITES - Appendix II  
 

 

    

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