Rusa marianna (Desmarest 1822)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 637-722 : 669

Rusa marianna (Desmarest 1822)

[Cervus] mariannus Desmarest 1822 , Mammalogie, in: Encycl. Meth., Vol. 2: 436.

Type Locality: "Les îles Mariannes " (Mariana Isls, Guam); introduced.

Vernacular Names: Philippine Deer.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rusa marianna subsp. marianna Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Rusa marianna subsp. barandana Heude 1888

Subspecies Rusa marianna subsp. nigella Hollister 1913

Subspecies Rusa marianna subsp. nigricans Brooke 1876

Distribution: Philippines (Basilan, Catanduanes, Leyte, Luzon, Polillo, and Samar Isls, and possibly Bohol and other small Isls); introduced to Mariana, Caroline and Ogasawara (= Bonin) Isls (W Pacific Ocean).

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient as Cervus mariannus .

Discussion: Treated as a separate species from C. unicolor by Haltenorth (1963), and by Grubb and Groves (1983), who revised this taxon. Brought to Ogasawara Isls in late 18th to early 19th centuries by Spanish ships; extinct there by about 1925; reintroduced from Guam after World War II but do not now survive ( Miura and Yoshihara, 2002).