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--> FAMILY Tapiridae
--> GENUS Tapirus
SPECIES Tapirus terrestris
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 74. | Common Name: | South American Tapir | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Brasilia", i.e., Brazil, Pernambuco. | 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. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | 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). |
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