Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819

Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., Vol. 32: 458.

Type Locality: "la presqu'ile de Malacca ", i.e. Malaysia, Malay Peninsula.

Vernacular Names: Malayan Tapir.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tapirus indicus subsp. indicus Desmarest 1819

Subspecies Tapirus indicus subsp. brevetianus Kuiper 1926

Distribution: Burma and Thailand south of 18°N, south through peninsular Malaya and Sumatra; listed as occurring in S Cambodia and possibly S Vietnam (Brooks et al., 1997); reliably recorded from Hongquan district, eastern Cochin China, Vietnam, in 1944 (Harper, 1945); authentic record from Laos in 1902 (Duckworth et al., 1999).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: The all-black form brevetianus known by two specimens from Palembang, S Sumatra is provisionally treated as a subspecies (Kuiper, 1926).