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GENUS Mazama
Author: | Rafinesque, 1817. | Citation: | Am. Mon. Mag., 1(5): 363. | Type Species: | Mazama pita Rafinesque, 1817 (= Moschus americanus Erxleben, 1777). | Comments: | Revised by Czernay (1987). The genus includes brown brockets (gouazoubira, pandora), red brockets (americana, temama), and small brockets (bororo, bricenii, chunyi, nana, rufina); it has not been established that brown or small brockets are monophyletic groups. |
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