Bisbalus citus

(Osgood, 1912)

Gray Brocket

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Osgood, W.H. 1912-01-10. Mammals from western Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 10(5):33-66.

Original name as described

Mazama americana citus

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:18776

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

El Consejo de Ciruma, eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Venezuela

Taxonomy notes

split from Passalites nemorivagus (which was previously under Subulo gouazoubira), and was moved from Mazama to the recently described Bisbalus

Taxonomy notes citation

Sandoval, E. D. P., Jędrzejewski, W., Molinari, J., Vozdova, M., Cernohorska, H., Kubickova, S., Bernegossi, A. M., Caparroz, R., & Duarte, J. M. B. (2024). Description of Bisbalus, a new genus for the Gray Brocket, Mazama cita Osgood, 1912 (Mammalia, Cervidae), as a step to solve the Neotropical deer puzzle. Taxonomy, 4, 10-26.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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