Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe, 1870 . Athenaeum, 2208:264.

TYPE LOCALITY: China, Kiangsu, Chingkiang, Yangtze River, Deer Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Lower Yangtze Basin, south to Guangxi (China); Korea; introduced in England and France.

STATUS: IUCN - Rare.

SYNONYMS: affinis, argyropus, kreyenbergi.

COMMENTS: Original description usually given as Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870:89 [pubi. June, 1870], but McAllan and Bruce (1989) have shown that publication in The Athenaeum was earlier (19 Feb. 1870).