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Definition of Family tayassuidae
1. Noun. Peccaries.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Genus Pecari, Genus Tayassu, Tayassu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tayassuidae
Literary usage of Family tayassuidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Peccary--with Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World by R. A. Donkin (1985)
"547-549. Walker (1964: 2: p. 1366) and Cooke and Wilkinson (1978: pp. 476-477)
give the geological range of the family (Tayassuidae or ..."
2. Reports and Papers by Iowa Geological Survey (1914)
"family tayassuidae. The Peccaries. Hog-like ungulates, with two or four hoofed
digits in the fore feet and two or three in the hinder. ..."
3. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1922)
""J2 and the partial revision of the entire peccary family (Tayassuidae), the
latter involving redefinitions of the two living genera of this group, ..."
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