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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. Species of hooved mammal White-tailed deer Male (buck or stag) Female (doe) O. v. nelsoni with juveniles (fawns) Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Secure (NatureServe) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order ...
O. v. carminis (Carmen Mountains white-tailed deer) O. v. chiriquensis; O. v. clavium O. v. couesi (Coues' white-tailed deer) O. v. curassavicus; O. v. dacotensis (Dakota white-tailed deer) O. v. goudotii; O. v. gymnotis (South American white-tailed deer) O. v. hiltonensis (Hilton Head white-tailed deer) O. v. leucurus (Columbian white-tailed deer)
Elliott Ladd Coues (/ ˈ k aʊ z /; September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist, and author. [1] He led surveys of the Arizona Territory, and later as secretary of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories .
The Key deer is a subspecies of white-tailed deer which migrated to the Florida Keys from the mainland over a land bridge during the Wisconsin glaciation. The earliest known written reference to Key deer comes from the writings of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda , a Spanish sailor shipwrecked in the Florida Keys and captured by Native Americans ...
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
White-tailed deer: throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America as far south as ...
Unlike the white-tailed, the mule deer does not generally show marked size variation across its range, although environmental conditions can cause considerable weight fluctuations in any given population. An exception to this is the Sitka deer subspecies (O. h. sitkensis). This race is markedly smaller than other mule deer, with an average ...
The Columbian white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus leucurus) [2] is one of the several subspecies of white-tailed deer in North America. It is a member of the Cervidae (deer) family, which includes mule deer , elk , moose , caribou , and the black-tailed deer that live nearby.