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--> FAMILY Cervidae
--> SUBFAMILY Cervinae
--> GENUS Axis
SPECIES Axis porcinus
| Author: | Zimmermann, 1780. | | Citation: | Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 131. | | Common Name: | Hog Deer | | Type Locality: | No locality given, based on captive in Bengal; "Indo-Gangetic Plain of India" (Lydekker, 1915:56); here restricted to India, West Bengal. | | Distribution: | Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China (Yunnan), N India, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (introduced?), and S Vietnam; introduced to S Australia. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I as Cervus porcinus annamiticus; U.S. ESA – Endangered as Axis porcinus annamiticus; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as A. p. porcinus, Data Deficient as A. p. annamiticus. | | Comments: | Cervus porcinus Zimmermann, 1777, is not an available name as it was published in an unavailable work (Spec. Zool. Geogr., p. 532): see Hemming (1950:547). |
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