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Catagonus wagneri (Chacoan peccary)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chacoan peccary or tagua (Catagonus wagneri) is the last extant species of the genus Catagonus; it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. About 3000 exist in the world. It is believed to be the closest living relative to the extinct genus Platygonus.
View Wikipedia Record: Catagonus wagneri

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Catagonus wagneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
70
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 23.58
EDGE Score: 5.28
View EDGE Record: Catagonus wagneri

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  76.611 lbs (34.75 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.345 lbs (610 g)
Diet [2]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years
Gestation [1]  5 months 2 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  15 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.51 feet (107 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Dry Chaco Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Defensores del Chaco National Park II 1792493 Paraguay  
Kaa-iya del Gran Chaco National Park 17006361 Santa Cruz, Bolivia  
Río Negro National Park II 73775 Paraguay  
Teniente Enciso National Park II 102327 Paraguay  
Tinfunqué National Park 607935 Paraguay  

Prey / Diet

Acanthocereus tetragonus (triangle cactus)[4]
Cleistocactus baumannii[4]
Opuntia discolor[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Catagonus wagneri, John J. Mayer and Ralph M. Wetzel, Mammalian Species No. 259, pp. 1-5 (1986)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0