Authority citation: Lydekker, R. 1915. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. IV. Artiodactyla, families Cervidæ (deer), Tragulidæ (chevrotains), Camelidæ (camels and llamas), Suidæ (pigs and peccaries), and Hippopotamidæ (hippopotamuses). British Museum (Natural History), London, 438 pp.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9342055
Original name as described: Muntiacus muntjak malabaricus
Nominal names: malabaricus Wroughton, 1915 | malabaricus Lydekker, 1915 [preoccupied]
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Artiodactyla -- Family: Cervidae -- Subfamily: Cervinae -- Tribe: Muntiacini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: BMNH:Mamm:1913.8.22.133
Type locality: Nagarahole, Karnataka, India.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): India (IND) | Sri Lanka (LKA)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently flagged, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Not evaluated
Species-specific notes: split from M. muntjak
Citation: Groves, C. P. & Grubb, P. 2011. Ungulate taxonomy. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.|Martins, R. F., Fickel, J., Le, M., Van Nguyen, T., Nguyen, H. M., Timmins, R., ... & Wilting, A. (2017). Phylogeography of red muntjacs reveals three distinct mitochondrial lineages. BMC evolutionary biology, 17(1), 1-12.
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