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Odocoileini

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

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Odocoileini
Odocoileus virginianus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Tribe: Odocoileini
Genera

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana.1

Phylogeny

Phylogeny by Gilbert et al. 20062 and Duarte et al. 2008,3 that showed Mazama is polyphyletic.

References

References

  1. Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.
  2. Gilbert, C.; Ropiquet, A.; Hassanin, A. (2006). "Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): Systematics, morphology, and biogeography". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (1): 101–117. Bibcode:2006MolPE..40..101G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.017. PMID 16584894.
  3. José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Susana González, Jesus E. Maldonado, The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.009.