Merida brocket
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| Mérida Brocket[1] | |
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| Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Mazama |
| Species: | M. bricenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Mazama bricenii (Thomas, 1908) |
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The Mérida Brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Merioa Brocket or Rufous Brocket,[2][3] is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,000–3,500 metres (3,300–11,500 ft) in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela.[2] It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987,[1] though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 656. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c Lizcano, D. J. & Alvarez, S. J. (2008). "Mazama bricenii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 10 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
- ^ "Mazama bricenii". ZipcodeZoo. BayScience Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
- ^ Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
