Lesser Brocket
Mazama nana (Hensel, 1872)
Also calledCorzuela enana (spa) · Kleinmazama (deu) · Mazame nain (fra) · Veado-bororó-do-sul (por) · poca (spa) · veado-cambuta (por) · veado-mão-curta (por)
First described in: Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Will. vol.1872 p.99
The pygmy brocket (Mazama nana) is a brocket deer species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It is a small deer with short legs, weighing 15 to 20 kilograms (33 to 44 lb). It is reddish-brown in color.
This species is sometimes considered a subspecies of Mazama rufina.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Hensel misidentified this species as Cervus rufinus Pucheran, but regarded Cervus nanus Lund as a synonym. The latter name becomes valid from Hensel's description, as Mazama nana (Hensel, 1872). The name is preooccupied by Cervus † nanus Kaup, 1839, possibly a junior synonym of † Euprox dicranocerus (Kaup, 1833), and probably a nomen oblitum. A species distinct from M. rufina according to Czernay (1987). " Bororo " has been used as a vernacular name for M. nana by Czernay (1987) but needs to be qualified in view of the recently described M. bororo.
Order Artiodactyla
discussion
COMMENTS: A species distinct form M. rufina according to Czernay (1987).
Order Artiodactyla
activity
Activity patterns. Their behavior is almost unknown but they appear to be active both by day and at night.
Cervidae
biology_ecology
Habitat. It is associated with mixed wet forests and southern pine (Awracaria) woodlands. It mainly lives in mountainous regions covered with dense vegetation. The habitat in eastern Paraguay is moist forest with an understory of bamboo thickets.
Cervidae
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Every page naming Mazama nana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5220124.