Amazonian brown brocket
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Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
Genus: | Mazama |
Species: | M. nemorivaga
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Binomial name | |
Mazama nemorivaga (F. Cuvier,1817)
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TheAmazonian brown brocket(Mazama nemorivaga), also known as thesmall brown brocket,is a small species ofdeerthat is almost entirely restricted toSouth America.[1][2]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]It is known fromPanama(in Isla San José of thePearl Islandsonly;endemicsubspeciesM. n. permira),Colombia,Venezuela,Guyana,Suriname,French Guiana,easternEcuador,easternPeru,Braziland possibly northernBolivia.[1]Habitats it is found in include primarily nonfloodedAmazoniantropical rainforest,and locally alsotropical deciduous forestandxeric shrublands,at altitudes up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).[1]However, reports from the latter habitats may actually representM. gouazoubira.[1]
Breeding
[edit]Breeding occurs year-round in some areas, with births tending to be concentrated in the rainy season.
Threats
[edit]It is threatened bydeforestationand by diseases spread by cattle, but not particularly by hunting.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]It issympatricwith the largerM. americanaover much of its range (the latter tends to have significantly higher population densities), and reportedly also withM. gouazoubirain a few areas. It was considered asubspeciesofM. gouazoubira,with which it isparapatric,until 2000.[1][3][4]Under normal viewing conditions it is not easily distinguished fromM. gouazoubira,but unlikeM. americanait is gray-brown overall with paler underparts.[3]
Hybrids withMazama gouazoubira
[edit]The occurrence of hybrids between the two species are documented.[5]
References
[edit]- ^abcdefgRossi, R.V.; Duarte, J.M.B (2016)."Mazama nemorivaga".IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2016:e.T136708A22158407.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T136708A22158407.en.Retrieved19 November2021.
- ^"Mazama nemorivaga".ZipcodeZoo.BayScience Foundation, Inc. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-08-26.Retrieved10 October2010.
- ^abRossi, R. V. (2000).Taxonomia de Mazama Rafinesque, 1817 do Brasil (Artiodactyla, Cervidae).M.Sc. Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo.
- ^Grubb, P.(2005)."Order Artiodactyla".InWilson, D.E.;Reeder, D.M (eds.).Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference(3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 656.ISBN978-0-8018-8221-0.OCLC62265494.
- ^Galindo, David Javier; Martins, Gabriela Siqueira; Vozdova, Miluse; Cernohorska, Halina; Kubickova, Svatava; Bernegossi, Agda Maria; Kadlcikova, Dita; Rubes, Jiri; Duarte, José Maurício Barbanti (February 2021)."Chromosomal Polymorphism and Speciation: The Case of the Genus Mazama (Cetartiodactyla; Cervidae)".Genes.12(2): 165.doi:10.3390/genes12020165.PMC7911811.PMID33530376.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Mazama (genus)
- Mammals of Brazil
- Mammals of Colombia
- Mammals of Ecuador
- Mammals of French Guiana
- Mammals of Guyana
- Ungulates of Central America
- Mammals of Peru
- Mammals of Suriname
- Mammals of Venezuela
- Fauna of the Amazon
- Mammals described in 1817
- Taxa named by Frédéric Cuvier
- Artiodactyla stubs