{{Short description|Genus of mammals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Pliocene – Recent | image = Catagonus wagneri closeup.jpg | image_caption = Chacoan peccary ''(Catagonus wagneri)'' | taxon = Catagonus | authority = Ameghino, 1904<ref>{{cite web |title=Catagonus |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42423 |website=Fossilworks}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Catagonus wagneri''? - Chacoan peccary *†''Catagonus bonaerensis''? *†''Catagonus carlesi''? *†''Catagonus metropolitanus'' (type) *†''Catagonus stenocephalus''? - Narrow-headed peccary | synonyms = *''Brasiliochoerus'' *''Parachoerus'' }} '''''Catagonus''''' is a genus of peccaries that contains the living Chacoan peccary, C. wagneri, and several extinct species. The genus has always been restricted to South America.
==Taxonomy== ''Catagonus'' is notable in that the type species, ''C. metropolitanus'', is extinct; the living Chacoan peccary was first described in 1930 from subfossil remains, and only found alive by scientists in 1972 (an example of a Lazarus taxon).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wetzel |first1=Ralph M. |title=Catagonus, an "Extinct" Peccary, Alive in Paraguay |journal=Science |date=1975 |volume=189 |issue=4200 |pages=379–381 |doi=10.1126/science.189.4200.379|pmid=17840828 }}</ref>
A 2017 study on the phylogenetic systematics of Tayassuidae species suggests that ''Catagonus'' should only contain ''C. metropolitanus''. The extinct narrow-headed peccary ''(C. stenocephalus)'' should be moved into ''Brasiliochoerus'', while the Chacoan peccary, ''C. bonaerensis'' and ''C. carlesi'' should be placed in ''Parachoerus''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parisi-Dutra |first1=R. |title=Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |date=2017 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=345–358|doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8 |hdl=11336/54840 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> If this is accepted, then ''Catagonus'' becomes an extinct genus once more.
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Category:Mammal genera Category:Mammal genera with one living species Category:Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino Category:Peccaries