Tapirus Brisson, 1762
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Regnum Animale, 2nd ed. p.12, 81
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Tapiridae
- genus
- Tapirus
Name
- Synonyms
- Chinchecus Trouessart, 1898
- Cinchacus Gray, 1873
- Elasmoganthus Palmer, 1904
- Helicotapirus Hulbert, 2010
- Hydrochoerus Gray, 1821
- Meyeriscus Spassov & Ginsburg, 1999
- Pinchacus Hershkovitz, 1954
- Syspotamus Billberg, 1827
- Tapir Blumenbach, 1779
- Tapirus Brünnich, 1771
- Tapirussa Frisch, 1775
- Tapyra Liais, 1872
- Homonyms
- Tapirus Brünnich, 1771
- Tapirus Brisson, 1762
- Common names
- tapir in English
Bibliographic References
- Groves, Colin, and Peter Grubb, 2011: null. Ungulate Taxonomy. ix + 317.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1998: OPINION 1894: Regnum Animale ..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles.... Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 55, part 1. 64-71.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1894 Regnum Animale?, Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for Nomenciatural purposes, with the conservation of the Mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1), 64-71 (1998)
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Reg. Anim.
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2000.
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