Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe 1870

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Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe 1870

Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe 1870 , Athenaeum, 2208: 264.

Type Locality: Syntypes purchased in Shanghai market, but based on the place where Swinhoe saw the species in the wild, type locality restricted to China, Kiangsu, Chingkiang, Yangtze River, Deer Isl ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:354).

Vernacular Names: Chinese Water Deer.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hydropotes inermis subsp. inermis Swinhoe 1870

Subspecies Hydropotes inermis subsp. argyropus Heude 1884

Distribution: China (formerly from Liaoning to Guangxi including the lower Yangtze Basin) and Korea; introduced in England and France.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as H. i. inermis, Data Deficient as H. i. argyropus.

Discussion: Original description usually given as Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870:89 [publ. June, 1870], but McAllan and Bruce (1989) showed that publication in the Athenaeum was earlier (19 Feb. 1870).