MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821

Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, Zootaxa 4522 (1), pp. 1-216 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4572171
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scientific name	MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821
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Family MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821 View in CoL View at ENA

Traditionally, musk deer were classified in the Cervidae , but the presence of a series of diagnostic characters (smaller size than Cervidae ; large upper canines and absence of antlers; entocarotid branches absent; tensor tympani chamber shallowed and pocketed in lateral wall; stapedial muscle chamber large and transversely elongated) supported the separate Family Moschidae ( Webb & Taylor 1980) . Korea houses a single species of Moschidae .