Moschus Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10 th ed., 1:66.

REVIEWED BY: P. Grubb (PG).

COMMENT: Included in family Moschidae by Flerov, 1952, [Musk deer and deer], Akad. Nauk, Moscow, 225 pp.; tentatively followed by Corbet, 1978:198. Here regarded as a subfamily of Cervidae, as revised by Groves, 1975, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 72:662-682.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Moschus spp.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301419006001000000.