Cervus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Cervidae
Cervus

description: Cervus Linnaeus 1758
Cervus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 66.
Type Species: Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Species and subspecies: 2 species with 34 subspecies:
Species Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. alashanicus Bobrinskii and Flerov 1935
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. atlanticus Lönnberg 1906
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. barbarus Bennett 1833
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. brauneri Charlemagne 1920
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. canadensis Erxleben 1777
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. corsicanus Erxleben 1777
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. hanglu Wagner 1844
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. hispanicus Hilzheimer 1909
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. kansuensis Pocock 1912
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. macneilli Lydekker 1909
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. maral Gray 1850
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. nannodes Merriam 1905
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. pannoniensis Banwell 1997
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. songaricus Severtzov 1873
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. wallichii G. Cuvier 1823
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. xanthopygus Milne-Edwards 1867
Subspecies Cervus elaphus subsp. yarkandensis Blanford 1892
Species Cervus nippon Temminck 1838
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. nippon Temminck 1838
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. aplodontus Heude 1884
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. grassianus Heude 1884
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. hortulorum Swinhoe 1864
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. keramae Kuroda 1924
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. kopschi Swinhoe 1873
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. mageshimae Kuroda and Okada 1950
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. mandarinus Milne-Edwards 1871
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. mantchuricus Swinhoe 1864
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. pseudaxis Gervais 1841
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. pulchellus Imaizumi 1970
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. sichuanicus Guo, Chen and Wang 1978
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. soloensis Heude 1888
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. taiouanus Blyth 1860
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. yakushimae Kuroda and Okada 1950
Subspecies Cervus nippon subsp. yesoensis Heude 1884
Discussion: Formerly included Rusa, Rucervus, and Przewalskium as subgenera, see Groves and Grubb (1987). Van Gelder (1977 b) also included Elaphurus, Axis, Dama and Hyelaphus. Information from various sources suggests that Cervus sensu lato is polyphyletic or paraphyletic. Dendrograms derived from mitochondrial-DNA restriction-site maps suggest that Axis axis and Rucervus duvauceli form a sister-clade to Elaphurus davidianus, Rusa unicolor and Cervus elaphus (Cronin, 1991), whereas genetic distances obtained from protein analysis suggested that Axis axis, Dama species and Rusa species formed a sister clade to Elaphurus davidianus, C. elaphus, and C. nippon (Emerson and Tate, 1993). Phylogram of Randi et al. (2001) suggests Rucervus eldi and Elaphurus davidianus form a clade whose sister-group includes Rusa and Cervus species.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, pp. 637-722 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 662, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519