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SPECIES Tapirus pinchaque

Author:Roulin, 1829.
Citation:Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., 18: 46.
Common Name:Mountain Tapir
Type Locality:"une journée de cette ville [Bogota], dans le Paramo de Suma-Paz," i.e., Colombia, Cundinamarca, Páramo de Sumapaz.
Distribution:Andes of Colombia and Ecuador; perhaps W Venezuela and N Peru.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUNC – Endangered.
Comments:Revised by Hershkovitz (1954).
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Synonyms:

    andicola Gloger, 1842
    leucogenys Gray, 1872
    pinchacus de Blainville, 1846
    roulini de Blainville, 1846
    roulinii Fischer, 1830
    villosus (Wagler, 1830)
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