Biology:Odocoileus
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Short description: Genus of mammals belonging to the deer, muntjac, roe deer, reindeer, and moose family of ruminants
| Odocoileus Temporal range: Pleistocene to present
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| Odocoileus virginianus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Tribe: | Odocoileini |
| Genus: | Odocoileus Rafinesque, 1832[1] |
| Type species | |
| Odocoileus speleus[1] Rafinesque, 1832
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Odocoileus hemionus | |
Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer (family Cervidae) containing three species native to the Americas.[1][3][4] The name is sometimes spelled odocoeleus; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto- and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".
Extant species
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Odocoileus hemionus | Mule deer | western half of North America. |
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Odocoileus pandora | Yucatan brown brocket | Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize) |
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Odocoileus virginianus | White-tailed deer | throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada , Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia.[5] |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Odocoileus, [1] Mammal Species of the World, 3rd Edition
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Odocoileus salinae". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=247644.
- ↑ Valerius Geist (1998). Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0496-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=bcWZX-IMEVkC&q=%22Odocoileus%22.
- ↑ Gutiérrez, E. E., Helgen, K. M., McDonough, M. M., Bauer, F., Hawkins, M. T., Escobedo-Morales, L. A., ... & Maldonado, J. E. (2017). A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling. ZooKeys, (697), 87.
- ↑ "IUCN Red List maps". http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=42394.
Wikidata ☰ Q2334923 entry
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