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--> FAMILY Tapiridae
--> GENUS Tapirus
SPECIES Tapirus indicus
| Author: | Desmarest, 1819. | | Citation: | Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 32: 458. | | Common Name: | Malayan Tapir | | Type Locality: | "la presqu'ile de Malacca", i.e. Malaysia, Malay Peninsula. | | 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). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | The all-black form brevetianus known by two specimens from Palembang, S Sumatra is provisionally treated as a subspecies (Kuiper, 1926). |
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