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Elaphurus (Pere David's deer)

Mammalia - Cervidae

Taxonomy
Elaphurus was named by Milne-Edwards (1866). It is extant.

It was reranked as Cervus (Elaphurus) by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930) and Pitra et al. (2004); it was synonymized subjectively with Cervus by Hassanin et al. (2012).

It was assigned to Cervidae by Carroll (1988); to Cervus by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930) and Pitra et al. (2004); to Cervinae by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Cervini by Grubb (2000) and Mackiewicz et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Elaphurus Milne-Edwards
1930Cervus (Elaphurus) Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau
1988Elaphurus Carroll
2000Elaphurus Grubb p. 302
2004Cervus (Elaphurus) Pitra et al. p. 893
2008Elaphurus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 5
2022Elaphurus Mackiewicz et al.

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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
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Ruminantiamorpha
Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
Pecora()
familyCervidae
Plesiometacarpalia
tribeCerviniGoldfuss 1820
genusElaphurusMilne-Edwards 1866

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.

G. Elaphurus Milne-Edwards 1866 [Pere David's deer]
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Elaphurus bifurcatus Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
Elaphurus davidianus Milne Edwards 1866
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available