Mazama temama

(Kerr, 1792)

Central American Red Brocket

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Family : Cervidae
Subfamily : Capreolinae
Tribe : Odocoileini
Genus : Mazama

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 462 pp.

Original name as described

Cervus temama

Other common names

Mexican Red Brocket

Type material

UNESP NPC094

Type kind

neotype

Type locality

Mirador, Veracruz (Mexico).

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic · Nearctic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Honduras · Guatemala · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia

Taxonomy notes citation

Sandoval, E. D. P., Rola, L. D., Morales-Donoso, J. A., Gallina, S., Reyna-Hurtado, R., & Duarte, J. M. B. (2022). Integrative analysis of Mazama temama (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) and designation of a neotype for the species. Journal of Mammalogy, 103(2), 447-458. · Reevaluation of the status of the Central American brocket deer Mazama temama (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) subspecies based on morphological and environmental evidence

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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