Little Red Brocket
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| Little Red Brocket | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ruminantia |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Genus: | Mazama |
| Species: | M. rufina |
| Binomial name | |
| Mazama rufina Bourcier & Pucheran, 1852 |
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The Little Red Brocket (Mazama rufina), also known as the Ecuador Red Brocket,[2] is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between 1,400 and 3,600 metres (4,600 and 11,800 ft).[1] It is one of the smallest brocket deer. The coat is reddish, and the legs and crown are blackish.[3] As recently as 1999, some authorities included both the Pygmy Brocket (M. nana) and Merida Brocket (M. bricenii) as subspecies of the Little Red Brocket.[4]
The Little Red Brocket may have formed an important part of the diet of the people of the Pleistocene Las Vegas culture.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lizcano, D. & Alvarez, S.J. (2008). Mazama rufina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 June 2007. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
- ^ Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). "Order Artiodactyla (pp. 637-722)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200261.
- ^ Trolle, M., and L. H. Emmons (2004). A record of a dwarf brocket from lowland Madre de Dios, Peru. Deer Specialist Group Newsletter 19: 2-5
- ^ Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ^ Salazar, Ernesto (2003). "Historie del Ecuador: Los primeros habitantes" (in Spanish). La Hora. Archived from the original on 2008-04-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20080408064344/http://www.dlh.lahora.com.ec/paginas/historia/historia1e.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
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