Definition of Family tayassuidae

1. Noun. Peccaries.

Exact synonyms: Tayassuidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Genus Pecari, Genus Tayassu, Tayassu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tayassuidae

family Sylviidae
family Symplocaceae
family Synchytriaceae
family Syngnathidae
family Synodontidae
family Tabanidae
family Taccaceae
family Tachinidae
family Tachyglossidae
family Taeniidae
family Talpidae
family Tamaricaceae
family Tapiridae
family Tarsiidae
family Taxaceae
family Tecophilaeacea
family Teiidae
family Tenebrionidae
family Tenrecidae
family Tenthredinidae
family Terebellidae
family Teredinidae
family Termitidae
family Testudinidae
family Tethyidae
family Tetragoniaceae
family Tetranychidae
family Tetraodontidae
family Tetraonidae

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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