Tapirella bairdii (Gill, 1865)

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 720-721

Tapirella bairdii (Gill, 1865)

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 33.

Tapirella bairdii is the only species of the order Perisodactyla in Mexico and Central America, and it is the largest land mammal in the region ( Reid 2009). This spe-

cies is unique and cannot be confused with other species in the region.

This species is usually named as Tapirus bairdii , but Ruíz-Garcia et al. (2012) called used Tapirella for this species. However, a recent revision called this species Tapirus bairdii ( Cozzuol et al. 2013) . In following Ramirez-Pulido et al. (2014), we use Tapirella .