Chacoan peccary
Conservation status
Endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Tayassuidae Genus: Catagonus Species: C. wagneri
Binomial name
Catagonus wagneri Wetzel et al., 1975

The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), is the closest living relative to the extinct Platygonus pearcei. It is found in the dry shrub habitat or Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and southern Brazil. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 597 pixel Image in higher resolution (2442 × 1821 pixel, file size: 1. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... The critically endangered Siberian Tiger, a rare subspecies of tiger. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Digimon, the only known animals. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species... Families Suidae Hippopotamidae Tayassuidae Camelidae Tragulidae Moschidae Cervidae Giraffidae Antilocapridae Bovidae The even-toed ungulates form the mammal order Artiodactyla. ... Species Dicotyles tajacu Tyassu pecari Catagonus wagneri A peccary (also known by its Spanish name, Javelina) is a medium-sized mammal of the family Tayassuidae. ... The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), is the closest living relative to the extinct Platygonus pearcei. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Species Tayassu Tayassu tajacu Tayassu pecari Catagonus Catagonus wagneri The peccaries (also known by its Spanish name, javelina or pecarí) are medium-sized mammals of the family Tayassuidae. ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ... Species (type) Platygonus is an extinct genus of peccary. ... There are things that have the name Chaco: South America: Gran Chaco, a region in South America Chaco Province, Argentina in the northeastern part of the country Chaco, a region in Paraguay Chaco Department, historical in Paraguay and proposed in Bolivia Gran Chaco Province, Bolivia (in Tarija Department) Chaco War...

The Chacoan peccary has the unusual distinction of having been first described based on fossils and was originally thought to be only an extinct species. In 1975 the animal was discovered to still be alive and well in the Chaco region of Paraguay. The species was well known to the native people, but it took a while for scientists to rediscover its existence. Three small ammonite fossils, each approximately 1. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

References

• Mayer, J. J. & Wetzel, R. M. (1986). "Catagonus wagneri." Mammalian Species 259, 1-5.
• Wetzel, R. M. (1977a). "The extinction of peccaries and a new case of survival." Annals of the New York Academy of Science 288, 538-544.
• Wetzel, R. M. (1977b). "The Chacoan peccary, Catagonus wagneri (Rusconi)." Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 3, 1-36.
• Wetzel, R. M., Dubos, R. E., Martin, R. L. & Myers, P. (1975). "Catagonus, an 'extinct' peccary alive in Paraguay." Science 189, 379-381.