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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyCervidae
  6. ›genusMazama
Mazama chunyi: museum & herbarium specimensMazama chunyi: museum & herbarium specimens

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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Dwarf Brocket

Mazama chunyi Hershkovitz, 1959

Also calledCabrito (spa) · Chuñi (spa) · Chuñitaruka (spa) · Cuñi (spa) · Kleiner grauer Spießhirsch (deu) · Mazame pygmée (fra) · Peruanischer Zwergmazama (deu) · Sudlicher Zwergmazama (deu) · Südlicher Zwergmazama (deu) · Venadillo (spa)

First described in: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vol.72 p.45

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Discussion: Prior to 1959 this species was confused with Pudu mephistophiles; see Hershkovitz (1959 c). Regarded as a subspecies of M. bricenii by Anderson (1997).

Order Artiodactyla

materials_examined

Type Locality: " Cocopunco, a site on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Real on the road to Mapiri, La Paz, Bolivia; altitude, about 3200 meters ".

Order Artiodactyla

discussion

COMMENTS: Prior to 1959 this species was confused with Pudu mephistophiles; see comment under that species.

Order Artiodactyla

discussion

COMMENT: Prior to 1959 this species was known as Pudu mephistophiles (De Winton, 1896); see comment under that species.

Order Artiodactyla

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