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A similar feature is seen in hippos, so some workers think that peccaries and hippos are each other's closest relatives (which, if correct, would mean either that peccaries are whippomorphs, or that Whippomorpha is not monophyletic*).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Indeed most workers - morphologists and molecular biologists - seem ok with the idea that hippos actually aren't in the same clade as pigs and peccaries (Suiformes), but instead form Whippomorpha with whales.
More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006
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A similar feature is seen in hippos, so some workers think that peccaries and hippos are each other's closest relatives (which, if correct, would mean either that peccaries are whippomorphs, or that Whippomorpha is not monophyletic*).
More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006
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