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Muntiacus muntjak

Description

Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann 1780)

[Cervus] muntjak Zimmermann 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 131.

Type Locality: Indonesia, " Java ".

Vernacular Names: Red Muntjac.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. muntjak Zimmermann 1780

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. annamensis Kloss 1928

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. aureus C. H. Smith 1826

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. curvostylis Gray 1872

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. guangdongensis Li and Xu 1996

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. malabaricus Lydekker 1915

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. menglalis Wang and Groves 1988

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. montanus Robinson and Kloss 1918

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. nigripes G. M. Allen 1930

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. vaginalis Boddaert 1785

Subspecies Muntiacus muntjak subsp. yunnanensis Ma and Wang 1988

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, S China (S Tibet and Yunnan to Guangdong), India, Laos, peninsular Malaya, Nepal, NE Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Sunda Isls (Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Bali, Lombok, and many smaller Indonesian islands).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes pleiharicus, listed as a distinct species by Chasen (1940:203), and vaginalis. Haltenorth (1963:40) included reevesi, feae, rooseveltorum and crinifrons. Distinctive differences in karyotype between single peninsular Malayan specimen (2N = 8) and other mainland populations (2n = 6 or 7) suggest possible division between Malesian and Continental semispecies (Groves and Grubb, 1987). Groves (2003) treated the Continental vaginalis (including subspecies aureus, malabaricus and others) as a species separate from muntjak.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 666, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zimmermann
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Cervidae
Genus
Muntiacus
Species
muntjak
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann, 1780) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

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  • Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus animalium, volumen 1: Sistens quadrupedia huc usque nota, erorumque varietates. C. R. Hake, Rotterdam, 174 pp.
  • Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.
  • Haltenorth, T. 1963. Klassifikation der Saugetiere: Artiodactyla I. Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (32): 1 - 167.
  • 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.
  • Groves, C. P. 2003. Taxonomy of ungulates of the Indian Subcontinent. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 100: 341 - 362.