Catagonus , an "Extinct" Peccary, Alive in Paraguay

1975/08/01 by Ralph M. Wetzel, Robert E. Dubos, Robert L. Martin +1 · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · #Indigenous Cultures and History #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory #Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond

paper · doi:10.1126/science.189.4200.379

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Abstract

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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