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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Cervidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capreolinae
--> GENUS Capreolus
SPECIES Capreolus capreolus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 68. | | Common Name: | European Roe | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Europa, Asia"; identified as Sweden by Thomas (1911a:151). | | Distribution: | Europe (excluding Corsica, Ireland, Sardinia, and Sicily) to W Russia and Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus region, NW Syria, N Iraq, N Iran; extinct in Lebanon and Israel; Protoneolithic record from Jordan (Jericho). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Sempéré et al. (1996, Mammalian Species, 538) and by Lister et al. (1998) whose identification of caucasicus as correct name for large-sized subspecies north of Caucasus Mtns is provisional. Treatment of italicus as a valid subspecies follows Lorenzini et al. (2002). |
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