Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus 1758)

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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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11330614

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scientific name

Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus 1758)
status

 

Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus 1758) View in CoL

[Hippopotamus] terrestris Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 74 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "Habitat in Brasilia", i.e., Brazil, Pernambuco.

Vernacular Names: South American Tapir.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Tapirus terrestris subsp. terrestris Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Tapirus terrestris subsp. aenigmaticus Gray 1872

Subspecies Tapirus terrestris subsp. colombianus Hershkovitz 1954

Subspecies Tapirus terrestris subsp. spegazzinii Amhegino 1916

Distribution: East of the western cordillera of the Andes in N Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, E Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela.

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

Discussion: Revised by Hershkovitz (1954), who provisionally recognized only nominate terrestris and colombianus as subspecies but indicated that tapir was probably a valid Guiana subspecies, and by Cabrera (1961), whose classification is followed here. Reviewed by Padilla and Dowler (1994, Mammalian Species, 481).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Perissodactyla

Family

Tapiridae

Genus

Tapirus

Loc

Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus 1758)

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

[Hippopotamus] terrestris

Linnaeus 1758: 74
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