Rusa alfredi Sclater 1870

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 : 669

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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scientific name	Rusa alfredi Sclater 1870
status

Treatment

Rusa alfredi Sclater 1870 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870: 381.

Type Locality: "transmitted … from Singapore … Hab. Malayan peninsula, or adjoining islands (?)"; " Philippines, the type specimen having been received from Manila " (Lydekker, 1915:63).

Vernacular Names: Visayan Spotted Deer.

Distribution: Philippines (Panay and Negros Isls; formerly also Guimaras and possibly Siquijor but almost certainly not Bohol, Cebu or any other Isls according to W. Oliver, in litt.).

Conservation: U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered as Cervus alfredi .

Discussion: Included in R. marianna by Haltenorth (1963). Revised by Grubb and Groves (1983), where treated as a full species.