PERISSODACTYLA: TAPIRIDAE 791 



Trichechus manatus latirostris Harlan* (Florida manatee) 



1823. Manatus latirostris Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 3, 



pt. 1, p. 394. 

 1884. Trichechus latirostris True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 588, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1934. Trichechus manatus latirostris Hatt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 66, 



p. 538, Sept. 10, 1934. 

 Type Locality. — Near the capes of East Florida. Range. — Coast and coastal 

 rivers of United States from Beaufort, N. C, to Florida Keys and coasts of Gulf 

 of Mexico (Hatt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 66, p. 538, Sept. 10, 1934) ; 

 westward along coast of Texas to mouth of Rio Grande (Gunter, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 22, No. 1, p. 60, Feb. 14, 1941. See also Moore, Quart. Journ. Florida Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 16, 18, March 1951) . 



Order PERISSODACTYLA (odd-toed ungulates) 



Suborder CERATOMORPHA 



Superfamily TAPIROIDEA 



Family Tapiridae (tapirs) 



Genus TAPIRELLA M Palmer 

 1865. Elasmognathus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, p. 183. 

 (Type, Elasmognathus bairdii Gill. Not of Fieber, 1844.) 



1903. Tapirella Palmer, Science, new sen, vol. 17, p. 873, May 29, 1903. 

 (Substitute for Elasmognathus Gill.) 



Tapirella bairdii (Gill)f* 



1865. Elasmognathus bairdii Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17 



p. 183. 

 1870. Elasmognathus dowii Gillf , Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 50, p. 142. (Guate 



mala. Regarded as identical with bairdii by Goodwin, Journ. Mamm., vol 



27, No. 1, p. 91, Mar. 16, 1946.) 

 1884. Elasmognathus bairdii True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ 



29), p. 593, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1904. [Tapirella'] bairdi Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 95, Zool. Ser., vol 

 4, pt. 1, p. 87, Aug. 2, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Isthmus of Panama. Range. — From Achotal, southern Vera 

 cruz, Mexico (Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 115, Zool. Ser., vol. 8, p. 102 

 Mar. 4, 1907), southward through British Honduras (Murie, Univ. Michi 

 gan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 26, p. 29, July 15, 1935), Guatemala, Nicaragua, and 

 Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 450, Dec. 31, 1946) 

 to Cana, Darien, eastern Panama (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69 

 No. 5, p. 83, Apr. 26, 1920). 



"For status see Simpson, Bull Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 86, pp. 40-41, Nov. 12, 1945. 



