Tapirus
Sign in to saveTapirus 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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Taxonomy · GBIF
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderPerissodactyla
- FamilyTapiridae
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- Extant species
- Evolution
- Fossil species
- References
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 |}