page_title: List of mammals of South Korea
section_title: Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of South Korea / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in South Korea. There are eighty-four mammal species in South Korea, of which six are endangered, six are vulnerable, and two are near threatened. One of the species listed for South Korea is considered to be extinct. The national animal of South Korea is the Siberian tiger.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
context_section_description: The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.
  Family: Suidae (pigs)
  Subfamily: Suinae
  Genus: Sus
  Wild boar, Sus scrofa LR/lc
  Family: Moschidae
  Genus: Moschus
  Siberian musk deer, Moschus moschiferus VU
  Family: Cervidae (deer)
  Subfamily: Cervinae
  Genus: Cervus
  Manchurian sika deer, Cervus nippon mantchuricus LR/lc (EX in South Korea, Formosan sika deer became feral)
  Subfamily: Hydropotinae
  Genus: Hydropotes
  Water deer, Hydropotes inermis LR/nt
  Subfamily: Capreolinae
  Genus: Capreolus
  Siberian roe deer, Capreolus pygargus LR/lc
  Family: Bovidae (cattle, antelope, sheep, goats)
  Subfamily: Caprinae
  Genus: Nemorhaedus
  Long-tailed goral, Nemorhaedus caudatus VU
caption: Siberian musk deer
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