| Amazonian brown brocket | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Mazama |
| Species: | M. nemorivaga |
| Binomial name | |
| Mazama nemorivaga (F. Cuvier, 1817) | |
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TheAmazonian brown brocket (Mazama nemorivaga), also known as thesmall brown brocket, is a small species ofdeer that is almost entirely restricted toSouth America.[1][2]
It is known fromPanama (in Isla San José of thePearl Islands only;endemic subspeciesM. n. permira),Colombia,Venezuela,Guyana,Suriname,French Guiana, easternEcuador, easternPeru,Brazil and possibly northernBolivia.[1] Habitats it is found in include primarily nonfloodedAmazoniantropical rainforest, and locally alsotropical deciduous forest andxeric shrublands, at altitudes up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).[1] However, reports from the latter habitats may actually representM. gouazoubira.[1]
Breeding occurs year-round in some areas, with births tending to be concentrated in the rainy season.
It is threatened bydeforestation and by diseases spread by cattle, but not particularly by hunting.[1]
It issympatric with the largerM. americana over much of its range (the latter tends to have significantly higher population densities), and reportedly also withM. gouazoubira in a few areas. It was considered asubspecies ofM. gouazoubira, with which it isparapatric, until 2000.[1][3][4] Under normal viewing conditions it is not easily distinguished fromM. gouazoubira, but unlikeM. americana it is gray-brown overall with paler underparts.[3]
The occurrence of hybrids between the two species are documented.[5]
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