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Hog Deer
Axis porcinus (E. A. W. von Zimmermann, 1780)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Cervidae - deer and moose »  genus Axis - Hog Deer

Scientific synonyms

Cervus porcinus Zimmermann, 1780 o
Hyelaphus porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780)

Type taxon of:Hyelaphus Sundevall, 1846 (Cervus porcinus Zimmermann, 1780)

Images

Axis porcinus - Hog Deer

Author: Ing. Petr Pivoňka

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Author: Zdeněk Hašek

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Author: Ronny Graf

Axis porcinus - Hog Deer

Author: Elias Neideck

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer, male

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer, male

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus - Common Hog Deer

Author: Klaus Rudloff

juvenile animal


Taxon in country check-lists

Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) - Bengal Tiger, Python molurus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Indian Python

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Axis porcinus annamiticus (Heude, 1888) - Indochina Hog Deer

Axis porcinus annamiticus

subspecies Axis porcinus porcinus (Zimmerman, 1780) - Common Hog Deer

Axis porcinus porcinus


Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41784]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN Australian Faunal Directory [751e6627-f63b-4c1b-911e-f4ad688be569]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780)]
Data retrieved on: 8 February 2015
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006310]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Axis porcinus (E. A. W. von Zimmermann, 1780)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Cervus porcinus Zimmermann, 1780]
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 Axis porcinus Zimmermann, 1780]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [5704:axishirsch-axis-porcinus&Itemid=264]

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 Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780)]
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 Hyelaphus porcinus (Müller et Schlegel, 1845)]

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Explanations

o original combination

i species introduced to area described by check-list

? disputed occurrence of species in area described by check-list