Cervus

11 species

| Common Deer or Red Deer || Eld's or Thamin Deer || Philippine Deer || Prince Alfred Spotted Deer || Rusa, Timor or Javan Deer || Sambar deer, Rusa || Schomburgk's Deer || Sika Deer || Swamp Deer, Barasingha, Duvaucel Deer || Thorold's Deer, White-lipped Deer || Wapiti |
| Cervus elaphus || Cervus eldii || Cervus mariannus || Cervus alfredi || Cervus timorensis || Cervus unicolor || Cervus schomburgki || Cervus nippon || Cervus duvaucelii || Cervus albirostris || Cervus canadensis |

 

Common Deer or Red DeerCommun name : Common Deer or Red Deer
Latin name : Cervus elaphus (Linnaeus 1758)
Localisation : western Europe, northwestern Africa, Asia (western China, northwestern America)
Habitat : clear broad-leaved forests, mountains, plains, heather fields.
Size : 1,6 to 2,5 m length

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11 sub-species

  • Cervus elaphus atlanticus : Atlantic Deer, Norway (Lonnbert 1906) .
  • Cervus elaphus bactrianus : Bactrian or Bukharian Deer, Russian Turkestan, north Afghanistan (Lyedekker 1900) .
  • Cervus elaphus barbarus : Barbary Deer, North Africa (Bennett 1833) .
  • Cervus elaphus corsicanus : Corsican Red Deer, Corsica and Sardinia (Erxleben 1777) .
  • Cervus elaphus hippelaphus : Carpathian Red Deer, Europe (Erxleben 1777) .
  • Cervus elaphus hispanicus : Spanish Red Deer, Spain and Portugal (Helzheimer 1909) .
  • Cervus elaphus langlu : Hangual,Kashmir,Barashinga Deer, Kashmir (Wagner 1844) .
  • Cervus elaphus maral : Maral Deer, Asia minor (Gray 1850) .
  • Cervus elaphus scoticus : Scottish Red Deer, Great-Britain (Lonnbert 1906) .
  • Cervus elaphus wallichi : Wallich or Shou's Deer, Tibet (Curvier 1823) .
  • Cervus elaphus yarkandensis : Yarkand Deer, Chinese Turkestan (Blanford 1892) .
Eld's or Thamin DeerCommun name : Eld's or Thamin Deer
Latin name : Cervus eldii (McClelland 1842)
Localisation : North India (manipur), Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
Habitat : jungle
Size :

Life in little group.

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3 sub-species

  • Cervus eldii eldii : Common Eld's Deer, north India (McClelland 1842) .
  • Cervus eldii siamensis : Thailand's Brow-antlered Deer, Thailand, Vietnam (Lyedekker 1915) .
  • Cervus eldii thamin : Thamin Deer, Burma (Thomas 1918) .
Commun name : Philippine Deer
Latin name : Cervus mariannus (Desmarest 1822)
Localisation : Philippines
Habitat :
Size :

Can be classified as a subspecies of Cervus unicolor.

Commun name : Prince Alfred Spotted Deer
Latin name : Cervus alfredi (Sclater 1870)
Localisation : Philippines
Habitat :
Size :

Can be classified as a subspecies of Cervus unicolor.

Rusa, Timor or Javan DeerCommun name : Rusa, Timor or Javan Deer
Latin name : Cervus timorensis (Blainville 1822)
Localisation : Java, Bali, Timor, introduce in Australia, New-Zealand, New-Caledonnia
Habitat :
Size :

Very few information.

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5 sub-species

  • Cervus timorensis djonga : _______, Muna and Butung Islands (Bemmel 1949) .
  • Cervus timorensis floresiensis : _______, Lombok and other islands (Heude 1896) .
  • Cervus timorensis macassaricus : _______, Celebes (Heude 1896) .
  • Cervus timorensis moluccensis : Moluccan Rusa, Molucca Islands (Quoy & Gaimard 1830) .
  • Cervus timorensis russa : Javan Deer, Java (Muller & Schlegel 1844) .
Sambar deer, RusaCommun name : Sambar deer, Rusa
Latin name : Cervus unicolor (Kerr 1792)
Localisation : India and Sri Lanka east to south China, Hainan Islands and Taiwan; Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Siberut, Sipora ... Introduce in Autralia and New Zealand.
Habitat : forests
Size : 1,25 m high, 226 kg

A brown coat with orange spots from time to time, fur thick and straight. Social animal with bucks whose can gathered during the mating period (nov, dec in central India) 5 to 12 does. Then they return to an alone life. Nightly activity, it stays during the day in the thicket. Swim easily.

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14 sub-species

  • Cervus unicolor francianus : _______, Phillippine, Mindoro Island (Heude 188) .
  • Cervus unicolor apoensis : _______, Phillippines, Mindanao Island (Sanborn 1952) .
  • Cervus unicolor barandanus : _______, Phillippine, Mindoro Island (Heude 1888) .
  • Cervus unicolor basilanensis : Basilan Sambar, Basilan Island, Phillipines (Heude 1888) .
  • Cervus unicolor boninensis : _______, Bonin Islands (Lydekker 1905) extinct.
  • Cervus unicolor brookei : _______, Borneo, Sarawak (Hose 1893) .
  • Cervus unicolor dejeani : _______, southwest China (Pousargues 1896) .
  • Cervus unicolor equinus : Malayan Sambar Deer, Sumatra, Malaya, Burma, China (Cuvier 1823) .
  • Cervus unicolor nigellus : _______, Phillippines, Mindanao Island (Hallister 1913) .
  • Cervus unicolor niger : Indian Sambar Deer, India (Blainville 1816) .
  • Cervus unicolor nigricans : Blackish Deer, Basilan Island (Brocke 1877) .
  • Cervus unicolor phillipinus : Phillipine Deer, Philippines (H. Smith 1827) .
  • Cervus unicolor swinholi : Swinhoe's Deer, Formosa (Schlater 1862) .
  • Cervus unicolor unicolor : Ceylonese Sambar Deer, Ceylon (Kerr 1792) .
Commun name : Schomburgk's Deer
Latin name : Cervus schomburgki (Blyth 1863)
Localisation : Thailand
Habitat :
Size :

Very few information about this extinct deer.

Sika DeerCommun name : Sika Deer
Latin name : Cervus nippon (Temminck 1838)
Localisation : Taiwan, Corea, Japan, Vietnam, introduce to British Islands, Lithuania, Ukraine, Caucasus region, New-Zealand, USA.
Habitat : forest
Size :

Live in group, white rump and white spotted coat. A long time sacred in Japan. Their antler are used in China into traditional medecine. Protected.

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12 sub-species

  • Cervus nippon centralis : Hondo Sika Deer, Hondo (Honshu) Island, Japan (Kishida 1936) .
  • Cervus nippon grassianus : Shansi Sika Deer, Shansi, China (Heude 1884) .
  • Cervus nippon hortulorum : Pekin or Dybowski's Sika Deer, Ussuri district, Manchuria (Swinhoe 1864) the bigest Sika Deer (110 cm high), brown clear spotted coat in summer, dark brown in winter.
  • Cervus nippon keramae : Kerama Sika Deer, Middle Ryukyu Islands (Kuroda 1924) .
  • Cervus nippon kopschi : South China or Kopsch's Deer, South-eastern China (Swinhoe 1873) .
  • Cervus nippon mageshimae : Megeshima Sika Deer, Megeshima Island (Kuroda & Okada 1951) .
  • Cervus nippon mandarinus : North China Sika Deer, North China (Milne-Edwards 1871) .
  • Cervus nippon mantchuricus : Manchurian Sika Deer, Mandchouria, Corea (Swinhoe 1864) .
  • Cervus nippon pseudaxis : Tohkin Sika Deer, Vietnam, Indochina (Eydoux and Souleyet 1841) .
  • Cervus nippon taiouanus : Formosan Sika Deer, Formosa (Blyth 1860) .
  • Cervus nippon yakushimae : Yakushima Sika Deer, Yakushima Island (Kuroda & Okada 1951) .
  • Cervus nippon yesoensis : Hokkaido Sika Deer, Hokkaido Island, Japan (Heude 1896) .
Commun name : Swamp Deer, Barasingha, Duvaucel Deer
Latin name : Cervus duvaucelii (G. Cuvier 1823)
Localisation : north India
Habitat :
Size :

Very few information, endangered.

2 sub-species

  • Cervus duvaucelii branderi : South Indian Swamp Deer, North-central India (Pocock 1943) .
  • Cervus duvaucelii duvauceli : North Indian Swamp Deer, North of Ganges, Assam, India (Cuvier 1823) .
Commun name : Thorold's Deer, White-lipped Deer
Latin name : Cervus albirostris (Przewalski 1883)
Localisation : Tibet
Habitat :
Size :

Very few information about this endangered deer.

WapitiCommun name : Wapiti
Latin name : Cervus canadensis (Linnaeus 1758)
Localisation : North America
Habitat : clear broad-leaved forests, mountains, plains, heather fields.
Size : 1,6 to 2,5 m length

Close species of Red Deer, some classify it as a subspecies (Cervus elaphus canadensis). Extinct in east america, it lives as wild state in some point in Rocky Mountains.

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12 sub-species

  • Cervus canadensis alashanicus : Ala-Shan Wapiti, (Flerov 1935) .
  • Cervus canadensis asiaticus : Altai Wapiti, (Lydekker 1898) .
  • Cervus canadensis kansuensis : Kansu Deer, (Porock 1912) .
  • Cervus canadensis machneilli : Mac Neill's D, (Lydekker 1909) .
  • Cervus canadensis manitobensis : Manitoba Elk, (Millais 1915) .
  • Cervus canadensis mannodes : Tule Elk or Dwarf Wapiti, (Merriane 1905) .
  • Cervus canadensis merriami : Merrianis Elk or Wapiti, (Nelson 1902) extinct.
  • Cervus canadensis nelsoni : Rocky Mountain Wapiti, (V. ailey 1935) .
  • Cervus canadensis roosevelti : Canadian or Roosevelt's Wapiti, Olympic Elk, North America (Merrian 1897) .
  • Cervus canadensis songaricus : Tien-Shan Wapiti, (Severtzov 1873) .
  • Cervus canadensis wackei : _______, (Noack 1902) .
  • Cervus canadensis xanthopygus : Manchurian elk, (Milne-Edwards 1867) .