Published February 7, 2020 | Version v1
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Mazama americana

Description

Mazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) . Red Brocket Figure 2C

Records. Recorded by line transect (09°15.898′S, 068° 58.372′W), opportunistic sightings camera trapping, hunter interviews, and hunting calendar.

Identification. The body is predominantly reddish-brown but varies from light to very dark. The neck is brown which contrasts with the color of the trunk. The flanks are similarly paler colored. There are white blotches at the base of the ears (Rossi 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127

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Biodiversity

Family
Cervidae
Genus
Mazama
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Erxleben
Species
americana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) sec. Oliveira & Calouro, 2020

References

  • Rossi RV (2000) Taxonomia de Mazama Rafinesque, 1817 do Bra- sil (Artiodactyla, Cervidae). Master thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 174 pp.