MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821

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 : 103

Family MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821

Traditionally, musk deer were classified in the Cervidae , but the presence of a series of diagnostic characters (smaller size than Cervidae ; large upper canines and absence of antlers; entocarotid branches absent; tensor tympani chamber shallowed and pocketed in lateral wall; stapedial muscle chamber large and transversely elongated) supported the separate Family Moschidae ( Webb & Taylor 1980) . Korea houses a single species of Moschidae .