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Tapirus
Tapirus is a genus of tapir which contains the living tapir species. The Malayan tapir is usually included in Tapirus as well, although some authorities have moved it into its own genus, Acrocodia.
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Tapirus is a group of living tapir species, which are medium-to-large mammals with stocky bodies and distinctive short trunks. While most tapir species belong to this genus, scientists sometimes debate whether the Malayan tapir should be classified separately in its own genus called Acrocodia.
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Species
Tapirus
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderPerissodactyla
- FamilyTapiridae
Observations recorded24,128
本文介紹的是奇蹄目貘總科的一種哺乳動物。關於會吃掉人的夢的妖怪，請見「貘 (妖怪)」。 貘（另有一寫為「獏」），奇蹄目貘科貘屬（学名：Tapirus）动物。体型像猪，但略大，鼻子圆长，可自由伸缩，尾短皮厚，毛少且长，前肢四趾，后肢三趾，善于游泳。现存的貘属动物可分為山貘、中美貘、南美貘、卡波马尼貘及马来貘5种，前4种都分佈在美洲，只有马来貘一种分布于东南亚。貘也是南美洲现存体形最大的陆生哺乳动物。 《說文》：“貘，似熊而黃黑色，出蜀中。”《爾雅·釋獸》：“貘，白豹。”郭璞注：“似熊，小頭庳腳，黑白駁，能舐食銅鐵及竹節。”所述似大熊貓，从现存貘类体色来看，应为马来貘。（釋義出自《王力古漢語字典》）
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Tapirus is a genus of tapir which contains the living tapir species. The Malayan tapir is usually included in Tapirus as well, although some authorities have moved it into its own genus, Acrocodia.
==Extant species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px || Baird's tapir (also called the Central American tapir) || Tapirus bairdii (Gill, 1865) || Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. |- |120px || South American tapir (also called the Brazilian tapir or lowland tapir) || Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) || Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the West |- |120px || Mountain tapir (also called the woolly tapir) || Tapirus pinchaque (Roulin, 1829) || Eastern and Central Cordilleras mountains in Colombia, Ecuador, and the far north of Peru. |- |120px || Malayan tapir (also called the Asian tapir, Oriental tapir or Indian tapir) || Tapirus indicus (Desmarest, 1819) || Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand |}