Five cervid species (clockwise from top left): the red deer (Cervus elaphus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Cervidae is a family of hoofed ruminant mammals in the order Artiodactyla. A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes. Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose. Most species do not have population estimates, though the roe deer has a population size of approximately 15 million, while several are considered endangered or critically endangered with populations as low as 200. One species, Père David's deer, is extinct in the wild, and one, Schomburgk's deer, went extinct in 1938.
The fifty-five species of Cervidae are split into nineteen genera within two subfamilies: Capreolinae (New World deer) and Cervinae (Old World deer). Extinct species have also been placed into Capreolinae and Cervinae. More than one hundred extinct Cervidae species have been discovered, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed.[1]
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South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes. Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú...
weigh as much as 820 kg. The smallest of them all is the northern pudu. Listofcervids Wood, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Sterling Pub...
the emergence ofcervids from the Oligocene to the early Pliocene. The latter half of the Oligocene (28–34 Mya) saw the appearance of the European Eumeryx...
Natural infections of F. magna occur primarily in cervids and bovids. Although many species are susceptible to infection, only a few cervid species contribute...
Hoover EA (2015). "Chronic wasting disease ofcervids: Current knowledge and future perspectives". Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 3: 305–25. doi:10...
Cervid alphaherpesvirus 3 (CvHV-3) is a species of virus in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales...
(0.39 in) long, falls off before one year of age, but is not replaced by a permanent tooth as in other cervids. Compared to the hog deer, the chital has...
antelope are sometimes referred to, and easily misidentified as, "deer" (cervids), true deer are only distantly related to antelope. While antelope are...
deer family differs from cervids, or true deer, by lacking antlers and preorbital glands also, possessing only a single pair of teats, a gallbladder, a...
Master Species List 2018b.v2". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 19 June 2019.[dead link] Data related to Cervid alphaherpesvirus...
Cervid alphaherpesvirus 1 (CvHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales...
(ed.). "The first living cervid species described in the 21st century and revalidation of Pudella (Artiodactyla)". Journal of Mammalogy. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyae012...
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external similarities with bovids and cervids. Ossicones are present only in the male okapi, while both sexes of giraffe possess this feature. The okapi...
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. pp. 584–602. Odden, M.; Wegge, P. (2007). "Predicting spacing behavior and mating systems of solitary cervids: A study...
Filarioidea) from sika deer in Japan; relationships between species parasitic in cervids and bovids in the Holarctic region". Parasite. 14 (3): 199–211. doi:10...
de Vos, A.; Brokx, P.; Geist, V. (1967). "A Review of Social Behavior of the North American Cervids during the Reproductive Period". The American Midland...
This is a listof the native wild mammal species recorded in South America. South America's terrestrial mammals fall into three distinct groups: "old-timers"...
University Press. ISBN 978-1-62349-277-9. OCLC 985023261. Lister, A. M. (1989-11-30). "Rapid dwarfing of red deer on Jersey in the Last Interglacial". Nature...
hog deer (Axis porcinus), or Indochinese hog deer, is a small cervid native to the region of the Indian subcontinent and Indo-Gangetic Plain. Introduced...
peculiarities, including a pair of prominent tusks (downward-pointing canine teeth), and its lack of antlers, it is classified as a cervid. Yet, its unique anatomical...
relatives; and Reduncinae, or reedbuck and kob antelopes. Members of the Cervidae family are cervids, or colloquially deer. Cervidae comprises 53 extant species...
(Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the fossil site of Dron-Durkheim 1 (German) and implications on the origin of crown cervids". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...
Dept. of Agriculture. p. 37. Retrieved 30 March 2024. Jenkins, K. J.; Wright, R. G. (1988). "Resource Partitioning and Competition Among Cervids in the...
formation, structure, and function of extraskeletal apparatus such as horns of bovids (e.g., cattle) and rhinos, cervids' antlers, giraffids' ossicones,...
summarized as cervids (Cervioidea), molecular studies provide different—and inconsistent—results, so the question of phylogenetic systematics of infraorder...
India indicate that boars are usually secondary in preference to various cervids and bovids,[citation needed] though when boars are targeted, healthy adults...
grazing, and does not admit a high density of wild herbivore fauna. The pressure of herbivore fauna, mainly cervids, in some European forests, has reached...
Broussard refers to people of European descent in the countryside who live a rural lifestyle, usually raising cattle but also cervids, poultry and rabbits....
A listof prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in Port Kennedy Bone Cave, located within the limits of Valley Forge National...
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