Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Perissodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 629-636 : 633

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scientific name

Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819
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Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819 View in CoL

Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819 View in CoL , 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).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Tapiridae

Genus

Tapirus

Loc

Tapirus indicus Desmarest 1819

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Tapirus indicus

Desmarest 1819: 458
1819
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