Mazama tschudii

(J. A. Wagner, 1855)

Peruvian Brown Brocket

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Ruminantia
Infraorder : Pecora
Superfamily : Cervoidea
Family : Cervidae
Subfamily : Capreolinae
Tribe : Odocoileini
Genus : Mazama

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Wagner, J.A. 1855. Lieferung 8, Lieferung 9. Pp. 337–432 in Wagner, J.A. Die Säughtiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Supplementband. Fünfte Abtheilung: Die Affen, Zahnlöser, Beutelthiere, Hufthiere, Insektenfresser und Handflügler. T.D. Weigel, Erlangen, 810 pp.

Original name as described

Cervus Tschudii

Type material

MHNSAAC 008-My

Type kind

neotype

Type locality

Neotype from La Ramada, Salas District, Lambayeque Province, Peru.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru

Taxonomy notes

split from Passalites nemorivagus

Taxonomy notes citation

Sandoval, E.D.P., Hernández-Guevara, J.E., Bernegossi, A.M., Peres, P.H.F., Caparroz, R. and Duarte, J.M.B. 2025. Mazama tschudii (Wagner, 1855), forgotten by science, re-emerges as a new genetic lineage of Neotropical deer with a proposed neotype (Artiodactyla, Cervidae). ZooKeys 1265:25-47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1265.157429

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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