Capreolus capreolus
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Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus 1758)
[Cervus] capreolus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 68.
Type Locality: "Habitat in Europa, Asia"; identified as Sweden by Thomas (1911 a:151).
Vernacular Names: European Roe.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. capreolus Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. canus Miller 1910
Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. caucasicus Dinnik 1910
Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. italicus Festa 1925
Distribution: Europe (excluding Corsica, Ireland, Sardinia, and Sicily) to W Russia and Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus region, NW Syria, N Iraq, N Iran; extinct in Lebanon and Israel; Protoneolithic record from Jordan (Jericho).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Reviewed by Sempéré et al. (1996, Mammalian Species, 538) and by Lister et al. (1998) whose identification of caucasicus as correct name for large-sized subspecies north of Caucasus Mtns is provisional. Treatment of italicus as a valid subspecies follows Lorenzini et al. (2002).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Cervidae
- Genus
- Capreolus
- Species
- capreolus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
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.
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Lister, A. M., P. Grubb, and S. R. M. Sumner. 1998. Taxonomy, morphology and evolution of European roe deer. Pp. 23 - 46, in The European roe deer: The biology of success (R. Andersen, P. Duncan, and J. D. C. Linnell, eds.). Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 376 pp.
- Lorenzini, R., S. Lovari, and M. Masseti. 2002. The rediscovery of the Italian roe deer: Genetic differentiation and management implications. Italian Journal of Zoology, 69: 367 - 379.