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Science 1 August 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4200, pp. 379 - 381
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4200.379
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Catagonus, an "Extinct" Peccary, Alive in Paraguay

Ralph M. Wetzel 1, Robert E. Dubos 1, Robert L. Martin 2, and Philip Myers 3

1 Biological Sciences Group, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06268
2 Department of Biology, University of Maine, Farmington 04938
3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley 94720

A third species of peccary, discovered in the Chaco of Paraguay, is added to the living members of family Tayassuidae. It is assigned to the genus Catagonus Ameghino, heretofore considered confined to the Pleistocene. The new peccary is conspecific with Catagonus wagneri (Rusconi), a species placed in the related extinct genus Platygonus LeConte when it was described from pre-Hispanic archeological deposits of Argentina.


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