FMNH 28273

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  • American Tapir label
    Photographer: Ron Testa : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Case Label. American Tapir, Tapirus terrestris, Hall 16 diorama. 3 animals, two adults and one partially grown young represented at mid-day under the shade of a tree at the edge of a grassy swamp. Painted scene of southwestern Brazil, open marsh and scattered clumps of small trees with a slender palm. In the tree above them, partly concealed by foliage, is a large blue macaw bird. Specimens obtained by Colin C. Sanborn, taxidermy by Julius Friesser, background by Charles A. Corwin.
FM Catalog: Mammals
Catalog Subset: Specimen
Scientific Name: Tapirus terrestris terrestris
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Tapiridae
Genus: Tapirus
Species: terrestris
Subspecies: terrestris
Field #: 54080
Collector: C. C. Sanborn
Collection No.: FMNH-Mammals-1679
Geography: South America, Brazil, Mato Grosso, 142m: Descalvado (=Descalvados Ranch). [LL]
DWc Country: Brazil
Date Collected: 2 Aug 1927
Preparations: skin,mounted
Tissue Available?: No
Co-ordinates Available?: Yes
Sex: Male
Sex: Male
EMu IRN: 2527499
OccurenceID: b5e0ea1f-11f9-4188-8155-79fdae6e9273
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