Also tañi-. [a. Guarani and Sp. tañicati; in F. tagnicati.] The native name in Guarani of the White-lipped Peccary of Paraguay, also called TAYASSU.
1827. Griffith, trans. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., III. x. 334. Here may be placed … the Tagnicati, Taitetou, Tajassou, etc. (Dicotyles labiatus, Guv.).
1868. J. E. Gray, in Proc. Zool. Soc., 45. Dicotyles labiatus. Black-brown, varied with yellowish; no neck-bands; lower jaw white…. Tagnicati, Azara, Paraguay i. 25.
1888. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., 753. The Tagnicati, or white-lipped Peccary … derives its name from a band of white hairs that crosses the upper jaw, and covers nearly the whole of the lower.
