Dicotyles
| Dicotyles Temporal range: Possible not describried Early Miocene records of cf. Dicotyles
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| Dicotyles tajacu | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Tayassuidae |
| Genus: | Dicotyles Cuvier, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Dicotyles tajacu Cuvier, 1817
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Dicotyles is a genus of peccary that lives now exclusive in Central and South america. It contains one living species, the Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu).[1][2] It includes fossil species, now all extinct, except for the Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu). Now, the validity of Dicotyles are in debate, most scientists suggesting that is a junior synonym of your sister taxon, Tayassu.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Dicotyles Cuvier 1817". Fossilworks.org.
- ^ "Tayassu tajacu (Collared Peccary or Quenk)" (PDF). Sta.uwi.edu.
- ^ "Genus Tayassu". MSW3. Retrieved 2025-12-12.
- ^ "Tayassu G.Fischer". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2025-12-12.