Editing Tapirus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of tapir}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|16|0}}<small>[[Miocene]] – [[Holocene|Recent]]</small>
| image = South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris).JPG
| image_caption = [[South American tapir]], a [[type species]] of ''Tapirus''
| taxon = Tapirus
| authority = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]], 1762<ref name="MSW">{{MSW3 Perissodactyla |id=14100037 |page=633}}</ref>
| type_species = ''[[South American tapir|Hippopotamus terrestris]]''<br/>(=''today is Tapirus terrestris'')
| type_species_authority = [[Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * [[Baird's tapir|''T. bairdii'']]
* [[Malayan tapir|''T. indicus'']]
* [[Mountain tapir|''T. pinchaque'']]
* [[South American tapir|''T. terrestris'']]
For extinct species, see text
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="MSW"/>
| synonyms = {{collapsible list |title=About 12 |titlestyle=text-align:center; font-weight:normal; |bullets=y
| ''Acrocodia'' <small>[[Edward Alphonso Goldman|Goldman]], 1913</small> (also as an independent genus<ref name="UT"/> or subgenus<ref name="Hulbert, 2010">{{cite journal |author=Hulbert, Richard C. |year=2010 |title=A new early Pleistocene tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from Florida, with a review of Blancan tapirs from the state |journal=Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History |volume=49 |number=3 |pages=67–126 |doi=10.58782/flmnh.ezjr9001 |url=https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/bulletin-vol49no3.pdf}}</ref>)
| ''Chinchecus'' <small>[[Édouard Louis Trouessart|Trouessart]], 1898</small>
| ''Cinchacus'' <small>[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1873</small>
| ''Elasmognathus'' <small>[[Theodore Gill|Gill]], 1865</small>
| ''Hydrochoerus'' <small>Gray, 1821</small> (''[[nomen nudum]]'')
| ''[[Mountain tapir|Pinchacus]]'' <small>[[Philip Hershkovitz|Hershkovitz]], 1954</small> (also as an subgenus of ''Tapirus''<ref name="Hulbert, 2010"/>)
| ''Rhinochoerus'' <small>[[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830</small>
| ''Syspotamus'' <small>Billburg, 1827</small>
| ''Tapir'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach|Blumenbach]], 1779</small>
| ''Tapyra'' <small>Liais, 1872</small>
| ''[[Tapirella]]'' <small>[[Theodore Sherman Palmer|Palmer]], 1903</small> (also as an subgenus of ''Tapirus''<ref name="Hulbert, 2010"/>)
| ''Tapirussa'' <small>Frisch, 1775</small>}}
}}

'''''Tapirus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[tapir]] which contains the living tapir species. The [[Malayan tapir]] is usually included in ''Tapirus'' as well, although some authorities have moved it into its own genus, ''Acrocodia''.<ref name="UT">{{cite book |author1=Groves, C.P. |author1-link=Colin Groves |author2=Grubb, P. |author2-link=Peter Grubb (zoologist) |year=2011 |title=Ungulate Taxonomy |place=Baltimore, Maryland |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=v3uZtA1ZpTAC&pg=PA18 18–20] |isbn=978-1-4214-0093-8 |lccn=2011008168 |oclc=708357723 |ol=25220152M |url=https://zmmu.msu.ru/files/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%20%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0/grubb-groves-2011_taxonomy_ungulates.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226165759/http://zmmu.msu.ru/files/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%20%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0/grubb-groves-2011_taxonomy_ungulates.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>