Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Dama Frisch 1775

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Description

Dama Frisch, 1775. Das Natur-System der Vierfüssigen Thiere, 3.

TYPE SPECIES: Cervus dama Linnaeus, 1758.

COMMENTS: Dama as generic name for the Fallow Deer was validated by Opinion 581, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1960). Treated as a full genus, not a subgenus of Cervus by Groves and Grubb (1987).

Notes

Published as part of Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 377-414 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 387, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Biodiversity

Family
Cervidae
Genus
Dama
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Frisch
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Dama Frisch, 1775 sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
  • International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1960. Opinion 581. Determination of the generic names for the fallow deer of Europe and the Virginian deer of America (Class Mammalia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 17: 267 - 275.
  • Groves, C. P., and P. Grubb. 1987. Relationships of living deer. Pp. 2 l- 59, in Biology and management of the Cervidae (C. M. Wemmer, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 577 pp.