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Definition of Genus tayassu
1. Noun. Type genus of the Tayassuidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Tayassuidae, Tayassuidae
Member holonyms: Musk Hog, Peccary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tayassu
Literary usage of Genus tayassu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 102. July 19, 1901. TYPE LOCALITY.—Cozumel
Island, Yucatan. Genus TAYASSU Fischer. 1814. ..."
2. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"... three on the hind feet (the fifth wanting). Stomach complex. A caecum.
Confined to the New World.6 (Flower and Lydekker.) Genus TAYASSU Fischer (1814). ..."
3. Reports and Papers by Iowa Geological Survey (1914)
"When fossil peccary teeth shall have been found which appear to belong to the
genus Tayassu, they ought to be carefully compared with the teeth of authentic ..."
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