Hippopotamus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Tapiridae
- genus
- Tapirus
- species
- Tapirus terrestris
Name
- Homonyms
- Hippopotamus terrestris Linnaeus, 1758
- Common names
- Brazilian tapir in English
Bibliographic References
- 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)
- Padilla, Miguel, and Robert C. Dowler, 1994: Tapirus terrestris. Mammalian Species, no. 481. 1-8.