Dicotyles tajacu (ungulate)
Variant names: Dicotyles angulatus, Pecari tajacu, Tayassu tajacu

Mass: 21 kg based on Richard-Hansen et al. 1999 and Zervanos 2002

Diet: browser based on Olmos 1993; herbivore based on Schweinsburg 1971

Abundance: 0.31 to 48.62% (median 4.77%)

Latitudinal range: -27.2° to 30.6°

Habitats: (3), desert/xeric shrubland (2), mangrove (2), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), tropical/subtropical coniferous forest (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (16), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (26), tropical/subtropical savanna (2)

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Found in 54 samples

Argentina: Acambuco, Iguazù National Park (on roads), Bañados del Quirquincho (bañadero forest)

Belize: Extinction Cave (Late Pleistocene)

Bolivia: Santa Rosa (control)

Brazil: Fazenda Sta Emília (acurí forest), Caxiuanä National Forest (March), Estação Biológica de Santa Lùcia (primary forest), Estrada do Porto (2005), Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve, Floresta Nacional Amapâ (dry season), Floresta Nacional Amapâ (wet season), Parque Estadual do Turvo (trail), Parque Estadual do Turvo (shelter), Humaitâ Forest Reserve, Reserva Natural Vale (year 2), Reserva Natural Vale (year 3), Reserva Natural Vale (year 4), Iguaçu National Park, Purus Project, Formosa Military Training Area, Private Reserve of Natural Heritage Recanto das Antas, Reserva Ecológica Michelin (floresta), Abismo Iguatemi (Late Pleistocene), Terra do Meio Ecological Station I, Terra do Meio Ecological Station II, Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land I, Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land II, Sertäo Veredas-Peruaçu mosaic

Costa Rica: San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor, Pacuare Nature Reserve, Piedras Blancas National Park

Ecuador: Chorongo

Honduras: Rio Sikre

Mexico: La Reserva Natural Sierra Nanchititla, Estación Científica Las Joyas, Tolistoque (dry season), Tolistoque (rainy season), Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (survey 1), Huasabas-Sahuaripa Region, Madera West, San Juan Bautista Cuicatlân (lluvias), San Juan Bautista Cuicatlân (secas), Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada (secas), Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada (lluvias), Sierra Region (secondary forest), Santa Marta rock-shelter (Holocene)

Panama: Ecoparque Panama

Peru: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005), Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2006), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2018), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2019)

United States: Kleberg County, Davis Mountain Preserve

Size measurements:
body mass18400 kgN = 8Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
body mass20100 kgN = 18Zervanos 2002
body mass21900 kgN = 5Zervanos 2002
body mass23800 kgN = 7Zervanos 2002
♀ ear length80 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
ear length93 mmN = 8Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ head and body length860 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
head and body length892 mmN = 8Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ hind foot length195 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
♀ hind foot length160 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
hind foot length187 mmN = 8Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ skull length250 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull length245 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull length256 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull length247 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull length246 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull length236 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
♀ skull width106 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull width111 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull width109 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull width109 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull width104 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
skull width108 mmN = 1Anthony 1921
♀ tail length15 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
tail length34 mmN = 8Richard-Hansen et al. 1999
♀ total body length948 mmN = 1Anthony 1921

See also Dicotyles