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Cervus unicolor (sambar)
Taxonomy
Cervus unicolor was named by Kerr (1792). It is extant.
It was recombined as Rusa unicolor by Stone and Rehn (1902), Zhang et al. (1980).
It was recombined as Rusa unicolor by Stone and Rehn (1902), Zhang et al. (1980).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. acoronatus, C. ardei, C. astylodon, C. axis, C. belgrandi, C. bovides, C. brevitrabilis, C. bucklandi, C. capreulus, C. dicranius, C. dorothoensis, C. duvauceli, C. duvauceli, C. elaphas, C. elaphoides, C. elephas, C. elsanus, C. fitchii, C. furcatus, C. gunnii, C. ischnoceros, C. kazusensis, C. liriocerus, C. matheroni, C. peloponnesiacus, C. philisi, C. phlisi, C. polignacus, C. punjabicus, C. reichenaui, C. rhenanus, C. solilhacus, C. stehlini, C. taiouanus, C. verticornis, C. warthae, C. yesoensis, C. yunnanensis, C. kauxuesis, C. naorai, C. praeonipponicus, C. dicranios, C. senezensis, C. takaoi, C. grayi, C. katokiyomasai, C. kuhlii, C. timoriensis, C. tricolor, C. yunnanensis, C. greyi, C. paleozoensis, C. taevanus, C. taiouanus
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1792 | Cervus unicolor Kerr |
| 1902 | Rusa unicolor Stone and Rehn p. 132 |
| 1980 | Rusa unicolor Zhang et al. |
| 2008 | Cervus unicolor Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 978 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2012 | Cervus unicolor Hassanin et al. p. 44 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 2015 | Cervus unicolor Gruwier et al. p. 37 figs. Table 1 |
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Cervus unicolor Kerr 1792 [sambar]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, MacFadden et al. 1999 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Cervus unicolor (68380) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Proboselaphus watasei (226365) | |
| Pleistocene | India | Cervus unicolor (238017 238018) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Madras) | Cervus unicolor (228955) | |
| Pleistocene | Sri Lanka | Cervus unicolor (238030) | |
| Pleistocene | India (West Bengal) | Cervus unicolor (238025) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Malaysia (Perak) | Cervus unicolor (235742) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Rusa unicolor (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima) | Rusa unicolor (143885) Suidae indet. (144185) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Rusa unicolor (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Laos (Hua Pan) | Cervus unicolor (235746) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Cervus unicolor (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Thailand | Cervus unicolor (176214) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Rusa unicolor (34679) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | India | Cervus unicolor (224310) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Rusa unicolor (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Rusa unicolor (237788) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Malaysia (Selangor) | Cervus unicolor (235743) | |
| Holocene | Thailand (Phanat Nikhom District) | Cervus unicolor (70833) |