Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.
| Odocoileini | |
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| Odocoileus virginianus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Tribe: | Odocoileini |
| Genera | |
The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana.[2]
Phylogeny edit
Phylogeny by Gilbert et al. 2006[3] and Duarte et al. 2008,[4] that showed Mazama is polyphyletic.
References edit
- ^ Vislobokova, I., 1980. The systematic position of a deer from Pavlodar and the origin of neocervinae. Paleontology J. 3, 97–111.
- ^ Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.
- ^ Gilbert, C.; Ropiquet, A.; Hassanin, A. (2006). "Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): Systematics, morphology, and biogeography". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (1): 101–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.017. PMID 16584894.
- ^ José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Susana González, Jesus E. Maldonado, The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.009.
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