Cervidae Goldfuss 1820

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 652

Cervidae Goldfuss 1820

Cervidae Goldfuss 1820 , Handb. Zool., Vol. 2: xx, 374.

Genera: 19 genera with 51 species in 3 subfamilies:

Subfamily Capreolinae Brookes 1828

Genus Alces Gray 1821 (2 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Blastocerus Wagner 1844 (1 species)

Genus Capreolus Gray 1821 (2 species with 8 subspecies)

Genus Hippocamelus Leuckart 1816 (2 species)

Genus Mazama Rafinesque 1817 (9 species with 26 subspecies)

Genus Odocoileus Rafinesque 1832 (2 species with 48 subspecies)

Genus Ozotoceros Ameghino 1891 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Pudu Gray 1850 (2 species)

Genus Rangifer C. H. Smith 1827 (1 species with 14 subspecies)

Subfamily Cervinae Goldfuss 1820

Genus Axis C. H. Smith 1827 (4 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Cervus Linnaeus 1758 (2 species with 34 subspecies)

Genus Dama Frisch 1775 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Elaphodus Milne-Edwards 1872 (1 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Elaphurus Milne-Edwards 1866 (1 species)

Genus Muntiacus Rafinesque 1815 (11 species with 14 subspecies)

Genus Przewalskium Flerov 1930 (1 species)

Genus Rucervus Hodgson 1838 (3 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Rusa C. H. Smith 1827 (4 species with 18 subspecies)

Subfamily Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898

Genus Hydropotes Swinhoe 1870 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Discussion: Reviewed by Whitehead (1972) and Groves and Grubb (1987). For introduced populations, see Lever (1985). For revision of the whole family, see Geist (1998). The following names have not been identified: Cervus anomalus Kerr, 1792 ; C. minutus Kerr, 1792 ; C. paludosus Kerr, 1792 ; C. squinaton Kerr, 1792 .