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Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)

Mammalia - Cervidae

Taxonomy
Dama virginiana was named by Zimmermann (1780). It is extant.

It was recombined as Cervus virginianus by Leidy (1860); it was recombined as Odocoileus virginianus by Schultz and Howard (1935), Miller and Kellogg (1955), Wilson (1967), Lundelius (1972), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hershkovitz (1982), Smith (1991), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Cisneros (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008).

Subspecies
O. aplodon
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
O. hemionus, O. virgininianus

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1780Dama virginiana Zimmermann
1860Cervus virginianus Leidy p. 109
1902Dama virginiana Hay p. 684
1935Odocoileus virginianus Schultz and Howard p. 286
1937Odocoileus cooki Frick
1937Odocoileus sheridanus Frick
1955Odocoileus virginianus Miller and Kellogg
1967Odocoileus virginianus Wilson p. 218
1972Odocoileus virginianus Lundelius, Jr.
1980Odocoileus virginianus Kurten and Anderson p. 310
1982Odocoileus virginianus Hershkovitz p. 8
1991Odocoileus virginianus Smith p. 1
1998Odocoileus virginianus Hulbert, Jr. and Pratt
2005Odocoileus virginianus Cisneros p. 249
2008Odocoileus virginianus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 978 figs. Fig. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Ruminantiamorpha
—Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
—Pecora()
superfamilyCervoidea
familyCervidae
—Telemetacarpalia
tribeOdocoileini(Pocock 1923)
genusOdocoileusRafinesque 1832
speciesvirginianus(Zimmermann 1780)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 [white-tailed deer]
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Invalid names: Odocoileus cooki Frick 1937 [synonym], Odocoileus sheridanus Frick 1937 [synonym]
†Odocoileus virginianus aplodon Slaughter and Crook 1962
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available