Muntiacus

Belongs within: Cervidae.

Muntiacus, muntjacs, is a genus of small deer with short antlers and large canines in males, found in southern and eastern Asia.

<==Muntiacus Rafinesque 1815 [=Diopplon Brookes 1828; incl. Cervulus Blainville 1816, Stylocerus Hamilton Smith 1827]G00
    |  i. s.: M. leilaoensisGRH06
    |         ‘Cervulus’ moschatusTD89
    |--M. reevesiFS15 [=Cervulus reevesiiD59]
    `--+--+--M. atherodes Groves & Grubb 1982FS15, G91
       |  `--+--M. vaginalisFS15 [=Cervulus vaginalisD59, M. muntjak vaginalisBM84]
       |     `--+--*M. muntjak (Zimmermann 1780)G00, FS15, G91 (see below for synonymy)
       |        `--M. montanusFS15
       `--+--+--M. vuquangensisFS15
          |  `--+--M. putaoensis Amato, Egan & Rabinowitz 1999FS15, TB01
          |     `--M. truongsonensis Giao, Tuoc et al. 1998FS15, TB01
          `--+--+--M. crinifronsFS15 [=Cervulus crinifronsTD89]
             |  `--M. gongshanensisFS15
             `--+--M. feae (Thomas & Doria 1889)FS15, TD89 [=Cervulus feaeTD89, M. feaiG00]
                `--M. rooseveltorumFS15

Inorganic: Muntiacus muntjac protominilorientalus Okamura 1987O87

*Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann 1780)^{G00, FS15, G91} [=Cervus muntjak^G00, Cervulus muntjac^M89, *Diopplon muntjak^G00; incl. Muntiacus muntjak pleiharicus (Kohlbrugge 1890)^{BP87, G91}]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BM84] Babrakzai, N., & W. B. Miller. 1984. Cytogenetic study of interspecific hybrids of Ashmunella (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Polygyridae), I. A. proxima × A. lenticula F₁ hybrids. Malacologia 25 (2): 413–426.

[BP87] Burton, J. A., & B. Pearson. 1987. Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World. Collins: London.

[D59] Darwin, C. 1859. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life 1^st ed. John Murray: London.

[FS15] Faurby, S., & J.-C. Svenning. 2015. A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 14–26.

[GRH06] Gilbert, C., A. Ropiquet & A. Hassanin. 2006. Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): systematics, morphology, and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40 (1): 101–117.

[G91] Groves, C. P. 1991. A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution revised ed. Clarendon Press: Oxford.

[G00] Grubb, P. 2000. Valid and invalid nomenclature of living and fossil deer, Cervidae. Acta Theriologica 45 (3): 289–307.

[M89] Modigliani, E. 1889. Appunti intorno ai mammiferi dell’isola Nias. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 238–245.

[O87] Okamura, C. 1987. New facts: Homo and all Vertebrata were born simultaneously in the former Paleozoic in Japan. Original Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory 15: 347–573.

[TD89] Thomas, O., & G. Doria. 1889. Diagnosi di una nuova specie del genere Cervulus raccolta da L. Fea nel Tenasserim. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 92.

[TB01] Timm, R. M., & J. H. Brandt. 2001. Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): New information on this enigmatic south-east Asian ox. Journal of Zoology 253: 157–166.