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Pecari

Pecari is a genus of mammals in the peccary family, Tayassuidae. The genus was monotypic until the description of P. maximus in 2007, but the scientific evidence for its status as a species separate from P. tajacu has later been questioned, leading the IUCN to treat it as a synonym.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Collared Peccary

speciesPecari tajacu

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42112.