Andinocervus rufinus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cervoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Cladus: Pan-Euungulata Mirordo: Euungulata Cladus: Paraxonia Ordo: Artiodactyla Cladus: Artiofabula Cladus: Cetruminantia Cladus: Ruminantiamorpha Subordo: Ruminantia Infraordo: Pecora Superfamilia: Cervoidea

Familia: Cervidae
Subfamilia: Capreolinae
Tribus: Odocoileini
Genus: Andinocervus
Species: Andinocervus rufinus

Name

Andinocervus rufinus (Pucheran, 1851)

• Holotype: MNHN-ZM-MO-1851-61.
• Type locality: “la vallée de Lloa, sur le versant occidental de la Cordillière du Pichincha”, Ecuador.

Combinations

• Cervus rufinus Pucheran, 1951: 561 [original combination]
• Mazama rufina: Thomas, 1913: 586 [subsequent combination]
• Andinocervus rufinus: Ramírez-Chaves et al., 2025: 234 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Pucheran, J. 1851. Note sur une espèce nouvelle de Cerf (Cervus rufinus, Bourc. et Puch.). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée (2)3: 561–563. BHL
• Thomas, O. 1913. On certain of the smaller S.-American Cervidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 8th Ser., 11(66): 585–589. DOI: 10.1080/00222931308693360 BHL Reference page. 
• Ramírez-Chaves, H.E., Morales-Martínez, D.M., Cardona-Giraldo, A., Castellanos, O., Ospina, O., Ossa-López, P.A., Rivera-Páez, F.A. & Noguera-Urbano, E.A. 2025. Systematics of the dwarf red brocket, Mazama rufina (Pucheran, 1851) (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Cervidae), with the description of a new genus. Zootaxa 5711(2): 223–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.2.4 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Northern Andean Red Brocket
• español: Corzuela enana
• suomi: Pikkupiikkohirvi
• magyar: Kis nyársasszarvas