Rusa marianna boninensis Lydekker, 1905

Bonin Islands sambar deer

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Cervus (Rusa) unicolor boninensis Lydekker, 1905

No longer considered a valid subspecies as it was simply an extirpated translocated population of the nominate race.

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: "extinct by about 1925"

IUCN RedList status: Introduced population

Distribution

Ogasawara Islands (=Bonin Islands), Japan

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

MacKinnon, J. R., Ong, P. and Gonzales, J. (2015). Rusa marianna. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T4274A22168586. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T4274A22168586.en. Downloaded on 23 March 2017.

Miura, S. and Yoshihara, M. (2002). The fate of Philippine brown deer Cervus mariannus of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Mammalia 66: 451-452.

Pocock, R. I. (1942). The Abnormal Last Molar in the Sambar of the Bonin Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 11, 9(53): 391-392. [First page]

Pocock, R. I. (1943). The skull-characters of some of the forms of Sambar (Rusa) occurring to the East of the Bay of Bengal. Part III, Rusa nigricans and Rusa boninensis. Ann. Mag. N at Hist, (11) 10: 191-106.

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