Pecari

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Pecari
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Tayassuidae Genus: Pecari
Species
Pecari tajacu Pecari maximus

Pecari is a genus of peccaries. Until the description of Pecari maximus in 2007, the genus was monotypic.

[edit] Species

• Collared Peccary, Pecari tajacu, (Linnaeus, 1758).
• Giant Peccary, Pecari maximus, Roosmalen et al., 2007.

[edit] References

• Roosmalen, M.G.M.; Frenz, L.; Hooft, W.F. van; Iongh, H.H. de; Leirs, H. 2007. A New Species of Living Peccary (Mammalia: Tayassuidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Bonner zoologische Beitrage 55(2): 105-112.
• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.