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The Yucatan Brown Brocket (Mazama pandora) is a small species of deer native to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. While it is found in humid tropical forest like other Brocket deer, the Yucatan Brown Brocket also ranges across arid, open habitats of the Yucatan.2 It has been treated as synonym for or subspecies of the sympatric Red Brocket (Mazama americana) in some listings. The IUCN considers "data deficient" in evaluating its status.
A study evaluating the Yucatan Brown Brocket and Red Brocket found a number of differences. The Yucatan Brown Brocket is brown to grey-brown, rather than red, has divergent antlers which are fluted when worn, and a noticeably "humped" nasal profile when compared to the Red Brocket.2
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References
- ^ Deer Specialist Group (2000). Mazama pandora. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 June 2007.
- ^ a b Medellín, Rodrigo A.; Alfred L. Gardner; J. Marcelo Aranda (April 1998). "The taxonomic status of the Yucatán brown brocket, Mazama pandora (Mammalia: Cervidae)" (dead link – Scholar search). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111 (1): 1–14, http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/mammals/brocket.html. Retrieved on 14 June 2007.
- Walker, Mark (2005). "Mazama or Brocket Deer Mazama species". World Deer. Biology Department, Siegen University. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
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