Mountain Tapir vs cigerão

Tapirus pinchaque compared with Vicia hirsuta

Key Differences

Mountain Tapir is Vulnerable while cigerão is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Mountain Tapir	cigerão
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Perissodactyla (perissodáctilos)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Tapiridae	Fabaceae
Genus	Tapirus	Vicia
Species	Tapirus pinchaque	Vicia hirsuta

Conservation Status

Mountain Tapir

VU — Vulnerable

cigerão

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Mountain Tapir	cigerão
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Mountain Tapir

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia and Ecuador. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

cigerão

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (5 countries), Asia (Taiwan), Europe (15 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador).