Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898

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 : 671

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scientific name	Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898
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Treatment

Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898 , Cat. Mamm. Viv. Foss., new ed., fasc. 4: 865.

Genera: 1 genus with 1 species:

Genus Hydropotes Swinhoe 1870 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Discussion: Affinities controversial; from cladistic analysis of skeletal characters, distanced from all other Cervidae by Gentry and Hooker (1988), making Cervidae paraphyletic if included; so perhaps to be placed in a different family; alternatively nested within Odocoileinae (= Capreolinae ), close to Capreolus , by Randi et al. (1998), using mtDNA studies, and inferred to have lost antlers secondarily.