Tapir
Position: ▪ Ungulates ▪ Tubulidae ▪ Cloonged ▪ Cétartiodactyles ▪ Tylopods ▪ Unnamed clade ▪ Altongulates ▪ Perissodactyles ▪ Mesaxonians ▪ Equidae ▪ Rhinocerotidae ▪ Tapiridae ▪ Hyracoids ▪ Tethytherians The word tapir refers to five species of ungulate mammals, one in Asia and four in Central America and South America. They are the only representatives of the genus Tapirus and of the Tapiridae family. This family is very similar to that of horses and rhinoceroses, also classified in the Perissodactyla due to an odd number of fingers.