Tapirus (Pinchacus) pinchaque (Roulin)

VOSS, ROBERT S., 2003, A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental, American Museum Novitates 3421, pp. 1-48 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2003)421<0001:ANSOTR>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605913
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FAB267-FFA5-FFDF-FD59-F9E6DB91DCB6
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tapirus (Pinchacus) pinchaque (Roulin)
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Tapirus (Pinchacus) pinchaque (Roulin) View in CoL

SPECIMENS COLLECTED: None.

OTHER MATERIAL: Two specimens of the woolly tapir are known from Papallacta. The first ( AMNH 70521 View Materials ), consisting of a skull collected by the Olallas (a family of professional collectors) in 1925, is unaccompanied by other geographic data. The second ( AMNH 149370 View Materials ) is the skin and skull of an individual that was captured alive by C. Cordier, who sold it to the New York Zoological Society in 1952; an index card in the AMNH collection archives indicates that this specimen was captured at 11,500 ft (3505 m), but Hershkovitz (1954: 476) reported the capture elevation as 3150 m .

TAXONOMY: The taxonomy of living Neotropical tapirs was revised by Hershkovitz (1954), who diagnosed the subgenus Pinchacus and established that Roulin’s is the oldest valid name for the woolly montane species.

REMARKS: Woolly tapirs have long been hunted in the vicinity of Papallacta and Antisana, from which hides and meat are still exported for sale in the street markets of Quito ( Downer, 1997). Although tracks and droppings are commonly encountered ( Black, 1982), the animal itself is seldom seen.