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--> ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
--> FAMILY Cervidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capreolinae
--> GENUS Ozotoceros
SPECIES Ozotoceros bezoarticus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 67. | Common Name: | Pampas Deer | Type Locality: | "Habitat in America australis"; identified as Brazil, Pernambuco (Thomas, 1911a:151). | Distribution: | N Argentina, SE Bolivia, Brazil (S of Amazon), Paraguay, and Uruguay. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as O. b. uruguayensis and O. b. arerunguaenis, Endangered as O. b. celer, Data Deficient as O. b. bezoarticus, Lower Risk (nt) as O. b. leucogaster. | Comments: | Reviewed by Jackson (1987, Mammalian Species, 295). Widely known in the older literature as Blastocerus or Cariacus campestris (= Cervus campestris F. Cuvier, 1817), a name which is properly a junior synonym of Odocoilelus virginianus cariacou. |
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