Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 108-110

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Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758
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Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL View at ENA —Red deer

Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758 p.67 View in CoL View Cited Treatment ; Type locality- Sweden; Won, 1968 p.368; Han, 1994 p.46; Won & Smith, 1999 p.22; Oh, 2004b p.265.

C. xanthopygus Milne-Edwards, 1867 p.376 ; Type locality- northern Manchuria; Kishida & Mori, 1931.

C. luhdorfi Bolau 1880 p.33 ; Type locality- 280 mile east of Vladivostok , northern Manchuria.

C. isubra Noack, 1889 p.9 ; Type locality- Suchan River , North and East Manchuria.

C. bedfordianus Lydekker, 1896 p.932 ; Type locality- Manchuria.

C. xanthopygus var. typicus de Pousargues, 1898 p.209 .

C. canadaensis xanthopygus: Kuroda, 1938 p.7 .

C. elaphus xanthopygus: Tate, 1947 p.346 View in CoL ; Won, 1958 p.431; Won, 1967 p.49; Won, 1968 p.371; Yoon, 1992 p.129.

Range: Red deer were abundant in extreme northeastern Korea in the early 1900s ( Lee 1965) but became rare by the 1960s ( Won 1968). Populations may persist in North Korea at Mt. Baekdu and adjacent areas ( Woo 1990; Won & Smith 1999), although this remains uncertain ( Fig. 71 View FIGURE 71 ).

Remarks: Genetic investigations using mtDNA indicated that an eastern lineage including populations from North America had a closer relation to the populations in Mongolia and northeastern China than populations in Europe ( Mahmut et al. 2002). Ancestral populations of C. elaphus emigrated from northeastern Eurasia to North America via Beringia during the last glacial period in the Pleistocene ( Geist 1998). The genetic distances (2.0%) between North American and Mongolian populations provided an estimated divergence time between 52,000 and 80,000 years ( Polziehn & Strobeck 1998). The recognized subspecies of red deer in Far East Asia including Korea is C. e. xanthopygus ( Won & Smith 1999) .

Conservation status: The North Korean government designated habitat in Samjiyeon at Mt. Baekdu a Natural Monument ( Kim et al. 2015). The Red Data Book for North Korea lists C. elaphus as a ‘Rare’ species (MAB National Committee of DPR Korea 2002). The South Korean government has not addressed the conservation status of the red deer.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Cervidae

Genus

Cervus

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Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L. 2018
2018
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C. elaphus xanthopygus:

Yoon 1992:
Won 1968:
Won 1967:
Won 1958:
Tate 1947:
1947
Loc

C. canadaensis xanthopygus:

Kuroda 1938:
1938
Loc

C. xanthopygus var. typicus

de Pousargues 1898:
1898
Loc

C. bedfordianus

Lydekker 1896:
1896
Loc

C. isubra

Noack 1889:
1889
Loc

C. luhdorfi

Bolau 1880:
1880
Loc

C. xanthopygus

Milne-Edwards 1867:
1867
Loc

Cervus elaphus

Oh 2004:
Won & Smith 1999:
Han 1994:
Won 1968:
Linnaeus 1758:
1758
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