Тапир туқымдасы

Genus of tapir
Automatic taxobox
| fossil range = Miocene – Recent
| image = South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris). JPG
| image caption = South American tapir, a type species of Tapirus
| taxon = Tapirus
| authority = Brisson, 1762
| type species = Hippopotamus terrestris(=Tapirus terrestris)
| type species authority = Linnaeus, 1758
| subdivision ranks = Species
| subdivision = * T. bairdii
T. indicus
T. pinchaque
T. terrestris
For extinct species, see text
| synonyms ref = )
| Chinchecus Trouessart, 1898
| Cinchacus Gray, 1873
| Elasmognathus Gill, 1865
| Hydrochoerus Gray, 1821 (nomen nudum)
| Pinchacus Hershkovitz, 1954 (also as an subgenus of Tapirus

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Baird's tapir (also called the Central American tapir) Tapirus bairdii (Gill, 1865) Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. South American tapir (also called the Brazilian tapir or lowland tapir) Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the West Mountain tapir (also called the woolly tapir) Tapirus pinchaque (Roulin, 1829) Eastern and Central Cordilleras mountains in Colombia, Ecuador, and the far north of Peru. Malayan tapir (also called the Asian tapir, Oriental tapir or Indian tapir) Tapirus indicus (Desmarest, 1819) Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand

The Kabomani tapir was at one point recognized as another living member of the genus, but is now considered to be nested within T. terrestris.

Tapirus first appeared in the Late Miocene in North America, with Tapirus webbi perhaps the oldest known fossil species. Tapirus spread into South America and Eurasia during the Pliocene. It has been suggested that the tapirs that inhabited North America during the Late Pleistocene may be derived from a South American species that remigrated north, perhaps Tapirus cristatellus. Tapirs suffered large scale extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene, and went completely extinct north of southern Mexico.