Tapirus

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.

==Extant species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px || Baird's tapir (also called the Central American tapir) || Tapirus bairdii (Gill, 1865) || Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. |- |120px || 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 |- |120px || 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. |- |120px || Malayan tapir (also called the Asian tapir, Oriental tapir or Indian tapir) || Tapirus indicus (Desmarest, 1819) || Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand |}