Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe 1870

Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe 1870, Athenaeum, 2208: 264.

Type Locality: Syntypes purchased in Shanghai market, but based on the place where Swinhoe saw the species in the wild, type locality restricted to China, Kiangsu, Chingkiang, Yangtze River, Deer Isl (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:354).

Vernacular Names: Chinese Water Deer.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Hydropotes inermis subsp. inermis Swinhoe 1870

Subspecies Hydropotes inermis subsp. argyropus Heude 1884

Distribution: China (formerly from Liaoning to Guangxi including the lower Yangtze Basin) and Korea; introduced in England and France.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as H. i. inermis, Data Deficient as H. i. argyropus.

Discussion: Original description usually given as Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870:89 [publ. June, 1870], but McAllan and Bruce (1989) showed that publication in the Athenaeum was earlier (19 Feb. 1870).