Cervinae Goldfuss 1820

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 : 661

Cervinae Goldfuss 1820

Cervinae Goldfuss 1820 , Handb. Zool., Vol. 2: xx, 374.

Genera: 9 genera with 28 species:

Genus Axis C. H. Smith 1827 (4 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Cervus Linnaeus 1758 (2 species with 34 subspecies)

Genus Dama Frisch 1775 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Elaphodus Milne-Edwards 1872 (1 species with 4 subspecies)

Genus Elaphurus Milne-Edwards 1866 (1 species)

Genus Muntiacus Rafinesque 1815 (11 species with 14 subspecies)

Genus Przewalskium Flerov 1930 (1 species)

Genus Rucervus Hodgson 1838 (3 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Rusa C. H. Smith 1827 (4 species with 18 subspecies)

Discussion: Cervini includes Axis , Cervus , Elaphurus , Przewalskium , Rucervus , and Rusa . Muntiacini includes Elaphodus and Muntiacus . Muntiacini generally has been regarded as a subfamily ( Haltenorth, 1963) and has usually been attributed to Pocock, 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1923:207; treated as a full family by Groves and Grubb (1990); relegated to tribal status in Cervinae , by Groves and Grubb (1987) and Grubb (2000 b) supported by evidence in Kraus and Miyamoto (1991).