Muntiacus muntjak

(E. A. W. von Zimmermann, 1780)

Southern Red Muntjac

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Superfamily : Cervoidea
Family : Cervidae
Subfamily : Cervinae
Tribe : Muntiacini
Genus : Muntiacus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Zimmermann, E.A.W. von. 1780. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der vierfüßigen Thiere. Zweiter Band. Weygandsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig, 432 pp.

Original name as described

Cervus (Muntjak)

Other common names

Sundaic Red Muntjak

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type locality

Java.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Thailand · Malaysia · Singapore? · Indonesia · Brunei

Taxonomy notes

previously included M. vaginalis (which tentatively included the name malabaricus) and M. montanus

Taxonomy notes citation

Groves, C. P. & Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate taxonomy. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. · Martins, R. F., Fickel, J., Le, M., Van Nguyen, T., Nguyen, H. M., Timmins, R., ... & Wilting, A. (2017). Phylogeography of red muntjacs reveals three distinct mitochondrial lineages. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1), 1-12. · Singh, B., Kumar, A., Uniyal, V. P., & Gupta, S. K. (2021). Phylogeography and population genetic structure of red muntjacs: evidence of enigmatic Himalayan red muntjac from India. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21, 1-15. · Melletti, M. and Focardi, S. (eds.). Deer of the World. Springer, Cham.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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