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Mazama Rafinesque 1817

Description

Mazama Rafinesque 1817

Mazama Rafinesque 1817, Am. Mon. Mag., 1 (5): 363.

Type Species: Mazama pita Rafinesque 1817

Species and subspecies: 9 species with 26 subspecies:

Species Mazama americana (Erxleben 1777)

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. americana Erxleben 1777

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. carrikeri Hershkovitz 1959

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. gualea J. A. Allen 1915

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. jucunda Thomas 1913

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. rosii Lönnberg 1919

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. rufa Illiger 1815

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. sarae Thomas 1925

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. sheila Thomas 1913

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. trinitatis J. A. Allen 1915

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. whitelyi Gray 1873

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. zamora J. A. Allen 1915

Subspecies Mazama americana subsp. zetta Thomas 1913

Species Mazama bororo Duarte 1996

Species Mazama bricenii Thomas 1908

Species Mazama chunyi Hershkovitz 1959

Species Mazama gouazoubira (G. Fischer 1814)

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. gouazoubira G. Fischer 1814

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. cita Osgood 1912

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. medemi Barriga-Bonilla 1966

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. mexianae Hagmann 1908

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. murelia J. A. Allen 1915

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. nemorivaga F. Cuvier 1817

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. permira Kellogg 1946

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. sanctaemartae J. A. Allen 1915

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. rondoni Miranda Ribeiro 1915

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. superciliaris Gray 1852

Subspecies Mazama gouazoubira subsp. tschudii Wagner 1855

Species Mazama nana Hensel 1872

Species Mazama pandora Merriam 1901

Species Mazama rufina Pucheran 1851

Species Mazama temama (Kerr 1792)

Subspecies Mazama temama subsp. temama Kerr 1792

Subspecies Mazama temama subsp. cerasina Hollister 1914

Subspecies Mazama temama subsp. reperticia Goldman 1913

Discussion: Revised by Czernay (1987). The genus includes brown brockets (gouazoubira, pandora), red brockets (americana, temama), and small brockets (bororo, bricenii, chunyi, nana, rufina); it has not been established that brown or small brockets are monophyletic groups.

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 655, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rafinesque
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Cervidae
Genus
Mazama
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Mazama Rafinesque, 1817 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
  • Duarte, J. M. B. 1996. Guia de identifacao de cervideos Brasileiros. Fundacao de Estudos e Pesquisas em Agronomia, Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, Jaboticabal, Brazil, 8 pp.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1912. Mammals from western Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 10: 32 - 67.
  • Cuvier, G. [Baron]. 1817. Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee. vol. 1. Les mammiferes. Deterville, Paris, 540 pp.
  • Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
  • Hollister, N. 1914. A systematic account of the grasshopper mice. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47: 427 - 489.
  • Goldman, E. A. 1913. Descriptions of new mammals from Panama and Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 60 (22): 1 - 20.
  • Czernay, S. 1987. Spiesshirsche und Pudus. A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt, 84 pp.