Tapirus Brünnich, 1771
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Tapiridae
- genus
- Tapirus
Name
Bibliographic References
- 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.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.