Editing Tapirus (section)

==Extant species==
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! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution
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|[[File:Baird's tapir (92135).jpg|120px]] || [[Baird's tapir]] (also called the Central American tapir) || ''Tapirus bairdii'' <small>([[Theodore Gill|Gill]], 1865)</small> || Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.
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|[[File:Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) male (27546923604).jpg|120px]] || [[South American tapir]] (also called the Brazilian tapir or lowland tapir) || ''Tapirus terrestris'' <small>([[Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])</small> || Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the West
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|[[File:Tapirus pinchaque portrait.jpg|120px]] || [[Mountain tapir]] (also called the woolly tapir) || ''Tapirus pinchaque'' <small>([[François Désiré Roulin|Roulin]], 1829)</small> || Eastern and Central Cordilleras mountains in Colombia, Ecuador, and the far north of Peru. 
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|[[File:Schabrackentapir Tapirus indicus Tiergarten-Nuernberg-1.jpg|120px]] || [[Malayan tapir]] (also called the Asian tapir, Oriental tapir or Indian tapir) || ''Tapirus indicus'' <small>([[Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest|Desmarest]], 1819)</small> || Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand
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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''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=2016-03-01|title=Mitogenomics of the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque, Tapiridae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) in Colombia and Ecuador: Phylogeography and insights into the origin and systematics of the South American tapirs|journal=Mammalian Biology|language=en|volume=81|issue=2|pages=163–175|doi=10.1016/j.mambio.2015.11.001|issn=1616-5047|last1=Ruiz-García|first1=Manuel|last2=Castellanos|first2=Armando|last3=Bernal|first3=Luz Agueda|last4=Pinedo-Castro|first4=Myreya|last5=Kaston|first5=Franz|last6=Shostell|first6=Joseph M.|bibcode=2016MamBi..81..163R }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tapirs.org/tapirs/|title=All About the Terrific Tapir {{!}} Tapir Specialist Group|website=Tapir Specialist Group|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>