Endangered
Chacoan peccary
Catagonus wagneri
Chacoan peccary is a mammal in the family Tayassuidae (order Artiodactyla) — Catagonus wagneri, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is an ungulate with a well-formed rostrum with a tough leathery snout. The bristle-like hair is generally brown to almost gray. A dark stripe runs across the back, and white fur is on the shoulders.
Range and habitat
The Chacoan peccary is confined to hot, dry areas. A few scattered giant trees are found, but the majority of the vegetation is thorny scrub vegetation. The Chacoan peccary, also called the taguá, is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Preserves have also been established in Paraguay, but are not highly enforced.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
With a total estimated population of approximately 3,000, it is considered to be an endangered species. A population has been established in North American and European zoos.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Chacoan peccary is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chacoan peccary, Wikidata item Q1058516. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
