Capreolinae
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| Capreolinae | |
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| Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae Brookes, 1828 |
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Alces |
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Odocoileinae |
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Capreolinae, Odocoileinae, or the New World deer (denoting their place of origin, not their current distribution), is a subfamily of deer. Alternatively, they are known as the telemetecarpal deer, due to their ankle structure being different from the plesiometacarpal deer of Cervinae
[edit] Classification and Species[1]
- Tribe Capreolini
- Genus Alces
- Moose (Alces alces; called "Elk" outside North America) (largest deer in the world)
- Genus Capreolus
- European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
- Siberian Roe Deer (Capreolus pygargus)
- Genus Hydropotes
- Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)
- Genus Alces
- Tribe Rangiferini (Reindeer and New World Deer)
- Genus Rangifer
- Caribou/Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
- Genus Hippocamelus
- Taruca or North Andean Deer (Hippocamelus antisensis)
- Chilean Huemul or South Andean Deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus)
- Genus Mazama
- Red Brocket (Mazama americana) (This species has found to be closer to Odocoileus than other brockets[2])
- Small Red Brocket or Bororo (Mazama bororo)
- Merida Brocket (Mazama bricenii)
- Dwarf Brocket (Mazama chunyi)
- Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)
- Pygmy Brocket (Mazama nana)
- Amazonian Brown Brocket (Mazama nemorivaga)
- Yucatan Brown Brocket (Mazama pandora)
- Little Red Brocket (Mazama rufina)
- Central American Red Brocket (Mazama temama)
- Genus Blastocerus
- Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
- Genus Ozotoceros
- Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus)
- Genus Pudu
- Northern Pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) (smallest deer in the world)
- Southern Pudú (Pudu pudu)
- Genus Odocoileus
- White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
- Mule deer, or Black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
- Genus Rangifer
[edit] References
- ^ The list is based on the studies of Randi, Mucci, Claro-Hergueta, Bonnet and Douzery (2001); Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004); Ludt, Schroeder, Rottmann and Kuehn (2004); Hernandez-Fernandez and Vrba (2005); Groves (2006); Ruiz-Garcia, M., Randi, E., Martinez-Aguero, M. and Alvarez D. (2007); Duarte, J.M.B., Gonzalez, S. and Maldonado, J.E. (2008)
- ^ Duarte, J. M. B., González, S. and Maldonado, J. E. 2008. The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49:17-22
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