🦋 Family

Tapiridae

4 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Tapiridae

Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tapirus terrestris, the South American tapir, is a Perissodactyla tapir native to Amazonian South America.

Tapirus pinchaque (Roulin, 1829)

Tapirus pinchaque, the mountain tapir, is a woolly Andean tapir, an endangered herbivorous keystone seed disperser.

Acrocodia indica (Desmarest, 1819)

Acrocodia indica, the Malayan tapir, is the largest living tapir species native to Southeast Asian tropical forests.

Tapirella bairdii (Gill, 1865)

Baird's tapir (Tapirella bairdii) is a large, muscular ungulate with a flexible proboscis that lives across a wide range of Central and South American habitats.

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