Capreolinae

Capreolinae
Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae Brookes, 1828
Genera
Alces Capreolus Hydropotes Rangifer Hippocamelus Mazama Odocoileus Blastocerus Ozotoceros Pudu
Synonyms
Odocoileinae

Capreolinae, Odocoileinae, or the New World deer (denoting their place of origin, not their current distribution), is a subfamily of deer. Alternatively, they are known as the telemetacarpal deer, due to their ankle structure being different from the plesiometacarpal deer of Cervinae.

Classification

The list is based on the studies of Randi, Mucci, Claro-Hergueta, Bonnet and Douzery (2001); Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004); Ludt, Schroeder, Rottmann and Kuehn (2004); Hernandez-Fernandez and Vrba (2005); Groves (2006); Ruiz-Garcia, M., Randi, E., Martinez-Aguero, M. and Alvarez D. (2007); Duarte, J.M.B., Gonzalez, S. and Maldonado, J.E. (2008)

• Tribe Capreolini
  • Genus Alces
    • Moose (Alces alces; called "Elk" outside North America) (largest deer in the world)
  • Genus Capreolus
    • European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
    • Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus)
  • Genus Hydropotes
    • Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)
• Tribe Rangiferini (reindeer and New World deer)
  • Genus Rangifer
    • Caribou/reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
  • Genus Hippocamelus
    • Taruca or North Andean deer (Hippocamelus antisensis)
    • Chilean huemul or south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus)
  • Genus Mazama
    • Red brocket (Mazama americana) (This species has found to be closer to Odocoileus than other brockets^[1])
    • Small red brocket or bororo (Mazama bororo)
    • Merida brocket (Mazama bricenii)
    • Dwarf brocket (Mazama chunyi)
    • Gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)
    • Pygmy brocket (Mazama nana)
    • Amazonian brown brocket (Mazama nemorivaga)
    • Yucatan brown brocket (Mazama pandora)
    • Little red brocket (Mazama rufina)
    • Central American red brocket (Mazama temama)
  • Genus Blastocerus
    • Marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
  • Genus Ozotoceros
    • Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus)
  • Genus Pudu
    • Northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) (smallest deer in the world)
    • Southern pudú (Pudu pudu)
  • Genus Odocoileus
    • White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
    • Mule deer, or black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus)

References

1. ^ Duarte, J. M. B., González, S. and Maldonado, J. E. 2008. The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49:17-22