Dicotyles tajacu - #1315
Collared Peccary
Group, including one young. Formerly as Pecari tajacu or Pecari angulatus, Javelina.
Geographic Distribution
USA (mainly in Arizona and Texas), Mexico (outside the Sierra Madre), and all other Central American states; South America in N Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad, and Venezuela. Introduced to Cuba.
Order/Family
Tayassuidae
Genus
Dicotyles
Specific Epithet
tajacu
Image Location
USA, AZ, Pima Co., Tucson, Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
Image Date
1993
Photographer
TL Best