{{Short description|Extinct species of peccary}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = Late Pleistocene | image = | extinct = yes | genus = Catagonus | species = carlesi | authority = (Rusconi, 1930)<ref>{{cite web |title=Catagonus carlesi|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=346956|website=Fossilworks}}</ref> | synonyms = ''Parachoerus carlesi'' }} '''''Catagonus carlesi''''', or '''''Parachoerus carlesi''''', is an extinct species of peccary that lived in Argentina during the Late Pleistocene.<ref name=Gasparini>{{cite journal |last1=Gasparini |first1=G.M. |title=Parachoerus carlesi (Mammalia, Tayassuidae) in the Late Pleistocene (northern Argentina, South America): paleoecological and palaeobiogeographic considerations |journal=Historical Biology |date=2017 |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1082–1088 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1418340|hdl=11336/49686 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

==Description== Fossils of ''Catagonus carlesi'' have been dated to 26,630 ± 370 years BP. It was adapted to open or semi-open and arid or semi-arid environments with scarce or absent vegetation cover. These environmental conditions favored the settlement of mammals adapted to open environments.<ref name=Gasparini />

==Taxonomy== A 2017 study on the phylogenetic systematics of Tayassuidae species suggests that ''Catagonus carlesi'' should be moved to the genus ''Parachoerus'' along with the living Chacoan peccary and ''C. bonaerensis'', with ''Catagonus'' restricted to the extinct ''C. metropolitanus''.<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>

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Category:Peccaries Category:Pleistocene Artiodactyla Category:Pleistocene extinctions Category:Pleistocene mammals of South America Category:Pleistocene Argentina