| Yucatan brown brocket | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Odocoileus |
| Species: | O. pandora |
| Binomial name | |
| Odocoileus pandora (Merriam, 1901) | |
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| Synonyms | |
Mazama pandoraMerriam, 1901 | |
TheYucatan brown brocket (Odocoileus pandora) is a small species ofdeer native toCentral America.
It has been previously treated as adisjunctsubspecies of thegray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) or a subspecies of thered brocket (M. americana).[2] In 2021, theAmerican Society of Mammalogists placed it in the genusOdocoileus.[3]
Among other features, the Yucatan brown brocket differs from both the red brocket and the gray brocket in the shape and measurements of the skull and antlers.[2] It also differs from theCentral American red brocket (M. temama) which is locallysympatric with the Yucatan brown brocket, in its gray-brown, rather than overall reddish, color.[2]
O. pandora is found in theYucatán Peninsula ofMexico,Belize andGuatemala.[4] While it is found in humid tropical forest like most otherbrocket deer, the Yucatan brown brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats.[2]
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