Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780) . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:131.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Bengal .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan and N India to Vietnam; Yunnan (China); Sri Lanka (introduced?); introduced to S Australia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Cervus (= Axis) porcinus annamiticus; U.S. ESA - Endangered as Axis (= Cervus) porcinus annamiticus.

SYNONYMS: annamiticus, hecki, oryzus, pumilio.

COMMENTS: Cervus porcinus Zimmermann, 1777, is not an available name as it was published in an unavailable work (Spec. Zool. Geogr., p. 532): see Hemming (1950:547).