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Central Asian red deer (Cervus hanglu)
Bukhara Deer stag at Speyside Wildlife Park ( = Cervus hanglu bactrianus)
A fine specimen of an extremely endangered (CITES Annex I) West Turkestan deer. It is a subspecies of the Western Red Deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus).
Date 11 October 2008
Source From geograph.org.uk
Author sylvia duckworth
Attribution sylvia duckworth / Bukhara Deer stag at Speyside Wildlife Park / CC BY-SA 2.0
Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1002574
The Central Asian red deer (Cervus hanglu), also known as the Tarim red deer is a deer species native to Central Asia, where it used to be widely distributed, but is scattered today with small population units in several countries. The Central Asian red deer is thought to comprise three subspecies:
the Kashmir stag (Cervus hanglu hanglu), the nominate subspecies, is endemic to Kashmir in India;
the Bactrian deer (Cervus hanglu bactrianus) ranges throughout Central Asia;
the Yarkand deer (Cervus hanglu yarkandensis) ranges in Xinjiang Province of western China.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Cervus
Species: Cervus hanglu Wagner, 1844 |