Odocoileini

Odocoileini

Odocoileini

Tribe of deer

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Genera ...

The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana.[2]

Phylogeny

Phylogeny by Gilbert et al. 2006[3] and Duarte et al. 2008,[4] that showed Mazama is polyphyletic.

References

  1. [1]
    Vislobokova, I., 1980. The systematic position of a deer from Pavlodar and the origin of neocervinae. Paleontology J. 3, 97–111.
  2. [2]
    Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.
  3. [3]
    Gilbert, C.; Ropiquet, A.; Hassanin, A. (2006). "Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): Systematics, morphology, and biogeography". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (1): 101–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.017. PMID 16584894.
  4. [4]
    José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Susana González, Jesus E. Maldonado, The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.009.


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