Tibetan gazelles and chirus in zoos

[beastdoctor]

Red Deer Classification

Grubbs and Grove in their 'Unglate Taxonomy" split up the red deer (Cervus elaphus) into 12 species as follows: Cervus alashanicus (Alashan stag). C. bactrianus (Bactrian stag), C. canadensis (Asian/American wapiti), C. corsicanus (Barbary red deer), C. elaphus (West European red deer), C. hanglu (Kashmir stag), C. macneilli (Sichuan shou), C. maral (Turkish red deer), C. pannoniensis (East European red deer), C. wallichii (Tibetan shou). C. xanthopygus (Manchurian wapiti), and C. yarkandensis (Yarkand stag). With this division, you can of course add on subspecies, of which with regards to North American elk, I would include at least the Roosevelt elk, the Rocky Mountain elk, and the Tule elk, and possibly Merriam's elk (extinct).

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Grubbs and Grove in their 'Unglate Taxonomy" split up the red deer (Cervus elaphus) into 12 species as follows: Cervus alashanicus (Alashan stag). C. bactrianus (Bactrian stag), C. canadensis (Asian/American wapiti), C. corsicanus (Barbary red deer), C. elaphus (West European red deer), C. hanglu (Kashmir stag), C. macneilli (Sichuan shou), C. maral (Turkish red deer), C. pannoniensis (East European red deer), C. wallichii (Tibetan shou). C. xanthopygus (Manchurian wapiti), and C. yarkandensis (Yarkand stag). With this division, you can of course add on subspecies, of which with regards to North American elk, I would include at least the Roosevelt elk, the Rocky Mountain elk, and the Tule elk, and possibly Merriam's elk (extinct).

But you can't just add on subspecies, you need evidence of such. The evidence seems to show that all American Elk are of one subspecies/species. Whether Grubb's and Grove's split is valid or not is of little knowledge to me though, from what I've heard, many of their species splits tend to have little or no evidence. Of course, they do seem to be right with the tiger split.

~Thylo

 

[jbnbsn99]

The Red Deer/Wapiti splits are some of the most sound splits in the book. They are based on multiple genetic studies, morphology studies, and studies of calls (something rare in mammalian studies).