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Odocoileus hemionus

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Description

Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817). Am. Mon. Mag., 1:436.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, South Dakota, mouth of Big Sioux River.

DISTRIBUTION: Baja California and Sonora to N Tamaulipas (Mexico); W USA (to Minnesota); W Canada; Alaskan Panhandle (USA). Introduced to Kauai (Hawaiian Isis) and Argentina.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered as O. h. cerrosensis.

SYNONYMS: auritus, californiens, canus, cerrosensis, columbianus, crooki, eremicus, fuliginatus, inyoensis, lewisii, macrotis, montanus, peninsulae, punctulatus, pusilla, richardsoni, scaphiotus, sheldoni, sitkensis, virgultus.

COMMENTS: Revised by Cowan (1936); reviewed by A.E. Anderson and Wallmo (1984, Mammalian Species, 219).

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 391, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359189

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cervidae
Genus
Odocoileus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Species
hemionus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817) sec. Grubb, 1993

References

  • Cowan, I. McT. 1936. Distribution and variation in deer (genus Odocoileus) of the Pacific coastal region of North America. California Fish and Game, 22: 155 - 246.
  • Anderson, A. E., and O. C. Wallmo. 1984. Odocoileus hemionus. Mammalian Species, 219: 1 - 9.