Roe Deer

materials_examined

1 ex.; Georgia, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Kazbegi, Kobi, lat: 42.55, long: 44.50, elev: 1970; 2018 - 05 - 08; (table).

North-South Corridor (Kvesheti-Kobi) Road Project - APPENDIX Y OTHER ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS

distribution

Distribution: Uncertain status; apparently uncommon and in low numbers; occurs in wooded valleys of the coastal region and Sahl Al-Ghab, while it is extinct west of Aleppo (Fig. 109). Previous records: Bush clad hills west of Aleppo (Carruthers 1909), Latakia (Talbot 1960; Harrison & Bates 1991), Slenfe mountains (Serra 2004), Jabal Shoeh (Masseti 2000), Abu Qubays and Al-Furunlok (Daoud & Khalil 2009 a, b), south of Aisam but extinct since 1993 (A Aidek, Syria, pers. comm. 2022). Recent records: east of Slenfeh, Al-Furunlok and Abu Qubays (2008), Mashqita (2010), Deir Mama (2012), Masiat, ad-Daliah and Ghmam (2020 – 2021), and Ain ar-Rajm’ah (2022).

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child_taxa

Subspecies:: Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. capreolus Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. canus Miller 1910 Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. caucasicus Dinnik 1910 Subspecies Capreolus capreolus subsp. italicus Festa 1925

Order Artiodactyla

discussion

Discussion: Reviewed by Sempéré et al. (1996, Mammalian Species, 538) and by Lister et al. (1998) whose identification of caucasicus as correct name for large-sized subspecies north of Caucasus Mtns is provisional. Treatment of italicus as a valid subspecies follows Lorenzini et al. (2002).

Order Artiodactyla