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GENUS Cervus

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 66.
Type Species:Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758.
Comments:Formerly included Rusa, Rucervus, and Przewalskium as subgenera, see Groves and Grubb (1987). Van Gelder (1977b) also included Elaphurus, Axis, Dama and Hyelaphus. Information from various sources suggests that Cervus sensu lato is polyphyletic or paraphyletic. Dendrograms derived from mitochondrial-DNA restriction-site maps suggest that Axis axis and Rucervus duvauceli form a sister-clade to Elaphurus davidianus, Rusa unicolor and Cervus elaphus (Cronin, 1991), whereas genetic distances obtained from protein analysis suggested that Axis axis, Dama species and Rusa species formed a sister clade to Elaphurus davidianus, C. elaphus, and C. nippon (Emerson and Tate, 1993). Phylogram of Randi et al. (2001) suggests Rucervus eldi and Elaphurus davidianus form a clade whose sister-group includes Rusa and Cervus species.
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SPECIES elaphus

SUBSPECIES elaphus

SUBSPECIES alashanicus

SUBSPECIES atlanticus

SUBSPECIES barbarus

SUBSPECIES brauneri

SUBSPECIES canadensis

SUBSPECIES corsicanus

SUBSPECIES hanglu

SUBSPECIES hispanicus

SUBSPECIES kansuensis

SUBSPECIES macneilli

SUBSPECIES maral

SUBSPECIES nannodes

SUBSPECIES pannoniensis

SUBSPECIES songaricus

SUBSPECIES wallichii

SUBSPECIES xanthopygus

SUBSPECIES yarkandensis

SPECIES nippon

SUBSPECIES nippon

SUBSPECIES aplodontus

SUBSPECIES grassianus

SUBSPECIES hortulorum

SUBSPECIES keramae

SUBSPECIES kopschi

SUBSPECIES mageshimae

SUBSPECIES mandarinus

SUBSPECIES mantchuricus

SUBSPECIES pseudaxis

SUBSPECIES pulchellus

SUBSPECIES sichuanicus

SUBSPECIES soloensis

SUBSPECIES taiouanus

SUBSPECIES yakushimae

SUBSPECIES yesoensis

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