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x. 26. THE MALAYAN TAPIR (Tapirus indicus).—In the present condition of zoological life on the world's surface there is no better instance of discontinuous distribution than that of the Tapirs. While Tropical America contains several species of Tapirus, and may be regarded as the focus of the genus, a single well-marked species—not, however, sufficiently distinct, even in the eyes of those most fond of inventing new names, for generic separation—occurs in Tropical Asia. This is the Malayan or Indian Tapir, Tapirus indicus (sive malayanus) of systematists.
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STAPLETON, F. ILLUSTRATIONS OF NEW OR RARE ANIMALS IN THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S LIVING COLLECTION 1 . Nature 27, 151–154 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027151a0
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