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SPECIES Rusa alfredi
Author: | Sclater, 1870. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870: 381. | Common Name: | Visayan Spotted Deer | Type Locality: | "transmitted … from Singapore … Hab. Malayan peninsula, or adjoining islands (?)"; "Philippines, the type specimen having been received from Manila" (Lydekker, 1915:63). | Distribution: | Philippines (Panay and Negros Isls; formerly also Guimaras and possibly Siquijor but almost certainly not Bohol, Cebu or any other Isls according to W. Oliver, in litt.). | Status: | U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered as Cervus alfredi. | Comments: | Included in R. marianna by Haltenorth (1963). Revised by Grubb and Groves (1983), where treated as a full species. |
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