Tapirus indicus Desmarest, 1819 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 32:458.

TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Malay Peninsula .

DISTRIBUTION: Burma and Thailand south of 18°N, south through Peninsular Malaysia; Sumatra. Said to have survived into this Century in S Vietnam; see Harper (1945). Recorded approximately 3,000 -1,500 years BP from Uttar Pradesh (N India) and Henan (China); see Banerjee and Ghosh (1981) and Teilhard de Chardin and Young (1936).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: bicolor, malayanus, sumatranus .

COMMENTS: Separated as genus Acrocodia by Eisenberg et al. (1987).