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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Cervidae
SUBFAMILY Hydropotinae
| Author: | Trouessart, 1898. | | Citation: | Cat. Mamm. Viv. Foss., new ed., fasc. 4: 865. | | Comments: | Affinities controversial; from cladistic analysis of skeletal characters, distanced from all other Cervidae by Gentry and Hooker (1988), making Cervidae paraphyletic if included; so perhaps to be placed in a different family; alternatively nested within Odocoileinae (= Capreolinae), close to Capreolus, by Randi et al. (1998), using mtDNA studies, and inferred to have lost antlers secondarily. |
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