Capreolinae, also known as Odocoileinae (an invalid junior synonym

Synonym (taxonomy)

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...

) or the New World deer (denoting their place of origin, not their current distribution), is a subfamily of deer

Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...

. Alternatively, they're known as the Telemetecarpal deer, due to their ankle structure being different from the Plesiometacarpal deer of Cervinae

Cervinae

Cervinae or the Old World deer , is a subfamily of deer. Alternatively, they're known as the Plesiometacarpal deer, due to their ankle structure being different from the Telemetecarpal deer of Capreolinae-Classification and Species:The list is based on the studies of Randi, Mucci, Claro-Hergueta,...

Classification and Species

The list is based on the studies of Randi, Mucci, Claro-Hergueta, Bonnet and Douzery (2001); Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004); Ludt, Schroeder, Rottmann and Kuehn (2004); Hernandez-Fernandez and Vrba (2005); Groves (2006); Ruiz-Garcia, M., Randi, E., Martinez-Aguero, M. and Alvarez D. (2007); Duarte, J.M.B., Gonzalez, S. and Maldonado, J.E. (2008)

• Tribe Capreolini
  • Genus Alces
    • Moose
      Moose
      The moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...
      
       (Alces alces; called "Elk" outside North America) (largest deer in the world)
  • Genus Capreolus
    • European Roe Deer
      Roe Deer
      The European Roe Deer , also known as the Western Roe Deer, chevreuil or just Roe Deer, is a Eurasian species of deer. It is relatively small, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapted to cold environments. Roe Deer are widespread in Western Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, and from...
      
       (Capreolus capreolus)
    • Siberian Roe Deer
      Siberian Roe Deer
      Capreolus pygargus, also known as the Siberian roe deer or eastern roe deer, is a species of roe deer found in northeastern Asia. In addition to Siberia and Mongolia, it is found in Kazakhstan, the Tian Shan Mountains, Eastern Tibet, the Korean peninsula, and northeastern China...
      
       (Capreolus pygargus)
  • Genus Hydropotes
    • Chinese water deer
      Water Deer
      The Water Deer is a small deer superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer but it is classified as a cervid despite having tusks instead of antlers and other anatomical anomalies. These unique characteristics have caused it to be classified in its own genus...
      
       (Hydropotes inermis)
• Tribe Rangiferini (Reindeer and New World Deer)
  • Genus Rangifer
    • Caribou/Reindeer
      Reindeer
      The reindeer , also known as the caribou in North America, is a deer from the Arctic and Subarctic, including both resident and migratory populations. While overall widespread and numerous, some of its subspecies are rare and one has already gone extinct.Reindeer vary considerably in color and size...
      
       (Rangifer tarandus)
  • Genus Hippocamelus
    • Taruca
      Taruca
      The Taruca , or North Andean Deer, is a species of deer that ranges across the Andes of Peru and Bolivia and the north of Chile and the northwest of Argentina...
      
       or North Andean Deer (Hippocamelus antisensis)
    • Chilean Huemul or South Andean Deer
      South Andean Deer
      The South Andean Deer, Hippocamelus bisulcus, also known as the Huemul , is an endangered species of deer native to the mountains of Argentina and Chile. One of two mid-sized deer of the Hippocamelus genus, the South Andean Deer ranges across the high mountainsides and cold valleys of the Andes...
      
       (Hippocamelus bisulcus)
  • Genus Mazama
    Brocket Deer
    Brocket deer are the species of deer in the genus Mazama. They are medium to small in size, and are found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Central and South America, and the island of Trinidad. Most species are primarily found in forests. They are superficially similar to the African duikers and the Asian...
    
    
    • Red Brocket
      Red Brocket
      The Red Brocket , is a species of brocket deer from forests in South America, ranging from northern Argentina to Colombia and the Guianas...
      
       (Mazama americana) (This species has found to be more closer to Odocoileus
      Odocoileus
      Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer containing two species native to the Americas. The name is sometimes spelt odocoeleus; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto- and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".-Species:...
      
      than other brockets)
    • Small Red Brocket
      Small Red Brocket
      The Small Red Brocket is a small species of deer in the Cervidae family. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest in Paraná and São Paulo in southeastern Brazil. This species, which only was scientifically described in 1996, is threatened by habitat loss. Though its size and structure most resemble that...
      
       or Bororo (Mazama bororo)
    • Merida Brocket
      Merida Brocket
      The Mérida Brocket , also known as the Merioa Brocket or Rufous Brocket, is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela...
      
       (Mazama bricenii)
    • Dwarf Brocket
      Dwarf Brocket
      The Dwarf Brocket , or Chunyi, is a small species of deer native to the Andean highlands in western Bolivia and south-eastern Peru, where found in forest and páramo. Its pelage is redddish-brown with dark grey foreparts and neck. The underparts are lighter brown, and the muzzle short and thick...
      
       (Mazama chunyi)
    • Gray Brocket
      Gray Brocket
      The Gray Brocket , also known as the brown brocket, is a species of brocket deer from northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It formerly included the Amazonian Brown Brocket and sometimes also the Yucatan Brown Brocket as subspecies...
      
       (Mazama gouazoubira)
    • Pygmy Brocket
      Pygmy Brocket
      The Pygmy Brocket, Mazama nana, is a brocket deer species from South America. It is found in Argentina, southern Brazil and Paraguay. It is a small deer with short legs, weighing . It is reddish-brown in color....
      
       (Mazama nana)
    • Amazonian Brown Brocket
      Amazonian brown brocket
      The Amazonian brown brocket , also known as the small brown brocket, is a small species of deer that is almost entirely restricted to South America. It is known from Panama The Amazonian brown brocket (Mazama nemorivaga), also known as the small brown brocket, is a small species of deer that is...
      
       (Mazama nemorivaga)
    • Yucatan Brown Brocket
      Yucatan Brown Brocket
      The Yucatan Brown Brocket is a small species of deer native to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. While it is found in humid tropical forest like most other brocket deer, the Yucatan Brown Brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats...
      
       (Mazama pandora)
    • Little Red Brocket
      Little Red Brocket
      The Little Red Brocket , also known as the Ecuador Red Brocket, is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between . It is one of the smallest brocket deer. The coat is reddish, and the legs and crown are...
      
       (Mazama rufina)
    • Central American Red Brocket
      Central American red brocket
      The Central American red brocket, Mazama temama, is a species of brocket deer ranging from southern Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern Colombia. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red brocket from South America, but its karyotype has 2n = 50, while the latter's was...
      
       (Mazama temama)
  • Genus Blastocerus
    • Marsh Deer
      Marsh Deer
      The Marsh Deer, Blastocerus dichotomus , is the largest deer species from South America reaching a length of and a height of at the rump. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay...
      
       (Blastocerus dichotomus)
  • Genus Ozotoceros
    • Pampas deer
      Pampas Deer
      Pampas deer, Ozotoceros bezoarticus, live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are also known as Venado or Gama. Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer...
      
       (Ozotoceros bezoarticus)
  • Genus Pudu
    • Northern Pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) (smallest deer in the world)
    • Southern Pudú (Pudu pudu)
  • Genus Odocoileus
    Odocoileus
    Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer containing two species native to the Americas. The name is sometimes spelt odocoeleus; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto- and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".-Species:...
    
    
    • White-tailed deer
      White-tailed Deer
      The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States , Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru...
      
       (Odocoileus virginianus)
    • Mule deer
      Mule Deer
      The mule deer is a deer indigenous to western North America. The Mule Deer gets its name from its large mule-like ears. There are believed to be several subspecies, including the black-tailed deer...
      
      , or Black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus)