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Rocky Mountain elk
Male Rocky Mountain elk
Female Rocky Mountain elk
Conservation status
Rocky Mountain elk
Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Cervus
Species:
C. canadensis
Subspecies:
C. c. nelsoni
Trinomial name
Cervus canadensis nelsoni
(Erxleben, 1777)[2]
Synonyms

Cervus elaphus nelsoni

The Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.

  1. ^ NatureServe. 2016. Cervus elaphus nelsoni, Rocky Mountain Elk. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.104511/Cervus_elaphus_nelsoni. Accessed 9 December 2021.
  2. ^ Erxleben, J.C.P. (1777) Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis.

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