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Mazama  Rafinesque, 1817
Taxonomic Serial No.: 624958

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Homelaphus Gray, 1872
  
  Common Name(s): brockets [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2012   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderArtiodactyla Owen, 1848 – artiodactyls, porco do mato, veado, cloven-hoofed ungulates, even-toed ungulates  
                                  FamilyCervidae Goldfuss, 1820 – cervids, caribou, deer, moose, wapiti  
                                     SubfamilyCapreolinae Brookes, 1828  
                                        GenusMazama Rafinesque, 1817 – brockets  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Mazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) – red brocket, South American Red Brocket 
                                           Species Mazama bororo Duarte, 1996 – São Paulo Bororó 
                                           Species Mazama bricenii Thomas, 1908 – Mérida Brocket, Merioa brocket 
                                           Species Mazama chunyi Hershkovitz, 1959 – dwarf brocket, Dwarf Brocket 
                                           Species Mazama gouazoubira (G. Fischer [von Waldheim], 1814) – South American Brown Brocket 
                                           Species Mazama nana (Hensel, 1872) – pygmy brocket, Southern Bororó 
                                           Species Mazama pandora Merriam, 1901 – Yucatan Brown Brocket 
                                           Species Mazama rufina (Bourcier and Pucheran, 1852) – Ecuador Red Brocket, little red brocket 
                                           Species Mazama temama (Kerr, 1792) – Central American Red Brocket 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Peter Grubb  
  Notes: 35 Downhills Park Road, London N17 6PE, England   
  Reference for: Mazama    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Mazama   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mazama   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Mazama   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Revised by Czernay (1987). The genus includes brown brockets (gouazoubira, pandora), red brockets (americana, temama), and small brockets (bororo, bricenii, chunyi, nana, rufina); it has not been established that brown or small brockets are monophyletic groups  
 

 

    

 
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