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Species
EndangeredObservations: Not much is known about the longevity of these animals. One captive specimen was still living at 14.7 years of age (Richard Weigl 2005).
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Lazarus taxon
- Parent taxon
- Catagonus
- Image
- Chacoan Peccary.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- taxon name
- Catagonus wagneri
- Commons category
- Catagonus wagneri
- Commons gallery
- Catagonus wagneri
- taxon common name
- Chacopekari
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Catagonus_wagneri
- short name
- C. wagneri
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), also called the taguá, is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. It is the only extant species of genus Catagonus. With a total estimated population of approximately 3,000, it is considered to be an endangered species.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chacoan peccary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.