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Chacoan Peccary Catagonus wagneri (Rusconi, 1930)

Mariana Altrichter, Harald Beck, Jaime Gongora, Alexine Keuroghlian,

and Rafael Reyna-Hurtado

Names

Genus: Catagonus Ameghino, 1904

Species: wagneri Rusconi, 1930

Names in other languages: Ayore o: Cuichajua; French: Pécari Du Chaco; German: Chaco-Pekari; Guarani: Curé-taguá; Italian:

Pècari del Chaco; Spanish: Pecarí del Chaco; Pecari chaqueño, Quimilero, Tagua, Solitario; To b a: Nokkayk

Other common names: Giant Pecari

Note: The Chacoan peccary was first described from pre-Hispanic and subfossil remains by Rusconi in 1930 and was believed to be

an extinct species. In 1972 it was found alive in the Argentine Chaco (Wetzel et al. 1975; Wetzel 1977a, b, 1981).

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