Gray Brocket

Gray Brocket
Gray Brocket
Gray Brocket (M. gouazoubira)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Genus: Mazama
Species: M. gouazoubira
Binomial name
Mazama gouazoubira
(Fischer, 1814)

The Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) is a species of brocket deer[2] from northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It formerly included the Amazonian Brown Brocket (M. nemorivaga)[3] and sometimes also the Yucatan Brown Brocket (M. pandora) as subspecies.[4] Unlike other species of brocket deer in its range, the Gray Brocket has a gray-brown (not reddish) pelage.

References

  1. ^ Black, P. & Vogliotti, A. (2008). Mazama gouazoubira. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 November 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern.
  2. ^ Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). "Order Artiodactyla (pp. 637-722)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200247. 
  3. ^ Rossi, R. V. (2000). Taxonomia de Mazama Rafinesque, 1817 do Brasil (Artiodactyla, Cervidae). M.Sc. Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo.
  4. ^ Medellín, R. A., A. L. Gardner, J. M. Aranda (1998). The taxonomic status of the Yucatán brown brocket, Mazama pandora (Mammalia: Cervidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111 (1): 1–14.