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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuborder Suina — thepeccaries .
Etymologies
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Javalina are members of the family Tayassuidae and feral swine the family Suidae.
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Javalina are members of the family Tayassuidae and feral swine the family Suidae.
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An Eocene peccary from Thailand and the biogeographical origins of the artiodactyl family Tayassuidae.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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On the other hand other workers have described some of the Old World peccaries as ‘unambiguous Tayassuidae’ (Ducrocq 1994, p. 765).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The function of interlocking canines in rain forest peccaries (Tayassuidae).
Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006
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A tubulidentate suiform lineage (Tayassuidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Spain.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Indeed this confusion is related to a similar controversy over which formal name is used for peccaries: are they Tayassuidae Palmer, 1897 or Dicotylidae Gray, 1868?
Meet peccary # 4 Darren Naish 2006
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The function of interlocking canines in rain forest peccaries (Tayassuidae).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A new genus of Tayassuidae (Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Uganda and Kenya.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The taxonomic status and distribution of Schizochoerus (Mammalia, Tayassuidae).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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