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Red Deer
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Cetartiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Cervidae - deer and moose »  genus Cervus

Other names

= Western Red Deer

Type taxon of:Cervus Linnaeus, 1758
Least Concern LC

Images

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Richard Ford

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Ondřej Zicha

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Ondřej Zicha

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Author: Jiří Novák

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Author: Jiří Novák

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Cervus elaphus maral - Asiatic Red Deer

Author: Jiří Novák

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Jiří Bohdal

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Jiří Bohdal

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Jiří Bohdal

juvenile animal

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus bactrianus - Skandinavian Red Deer

Author: Klaus Rudloff

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Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera tigris altaica Temminck, 1844 - Siberian Tiger

parasite: Fascioloides magna (Bassi, 1875), Varestrongylus sagittatus (Müller, 1890)

Included taxa

Number of records: 14

subspecies Cervus elaphus bactrianus Lydekker, 1900 - Bactrian Deer

Cervus elaphus bactrianus

subspecies Cervus elaphus barbarus Bennet, 1833 - Barbary Deer

Cervus elaphus barbarus

subspecies Cervus elaphus brauneri (Charlemagne, 1920) - Crimean Deer
subspecies Cervus elaphus corsicanus Erxleben, 1777 - Corsican Red Deer inq.
subspecies Cervus elaphus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758 - Skandinavian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus elaphus

subspecies Cervus elaphus hippelaphus (Erxleben, 1777) - Central European Red Deer

Cervus elaphus hippelaphus

subspecies Cervus elaphus hispanicus (Hilzheimer, 1909) - Iberian Red Deer

Cervus elaphus hispanicus

subspecies Cervus elaphus italicus Zachos, Mattioli, Ferretti & Lorenzini, 2014 - Mesola Red Deer
subspecies Cervus elaphus maral Gray, 1850 - Asiatic Red Deer

Cervus elaphus maral

subspecies Cervus elaphus montanus Botezat, 1903 - Eastern Red Deer

Cervus elaphus montanus

subspecies Cervus elaphus scoticus Lönnberg, 1906 - Scottish Red Deer

Cervus elaphus scoticus


Fossil taxa

subspecies Cervus elaphus eostephanoceros Di Stefano & Petronio, 1993
Quaternary: Chibanian
subspecies Cervus elaphus palmidactyloceros De Stefano, 1911
Quaternary: Holocene
subspecies Cervus elaphus rianensis Leonardi & Petronio, 1974
Quaternary: Upper Pleistocene

Links and literature

EN Pest Information Wiki [Cervus_elaphus]

Pest Information Wiki [http://wiki.pestinfo.org] [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758]
Data retrieved on: 5 March 2016
EN Fauna Europaea 2.4 [305262]

de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea [http://www.faunaeur.org] [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 9 March 2012
EN Australian Faunal Directory [70943adf-8589-40e9-8338-7ba862074b86]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 8 February 2015
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Cervus elaphus hanglu Wagner, 1844 = Cervus wallichii hanglu Wagner, 1844]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [207:rothirsche]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758]
CZ Pluháček J., Hrabina P. & Robovský J. (2011): České názvy živočichů. Savci (Mammalia). Dodatek 2 – jelenovití (Cervidae), kabarovití (Moschidae) a kančilovití (Tragulidae), Lynx, n. s. (Praha) 42: 281–296 [as Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758]

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Taxa (not confirmed) - 3
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Explanations

inq. nomen inquirendum - doubtful identity, needs further investigation

extinct taxon