Cedros Island Mule Deer

Cedros Island Mule Deer

Taxobox
name = Cedros Island mule deer
status = EN
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
subordo = Ruminantia
familia = Cervidae
subfamilia = Capreolinae
genus = "Odocoileus"
species = "O. hemionus"
subspecies = "O. h. cerrosensis"
trinomial = "Odocoileus hemionus cerrosensis"
trinomial_authority = Merriam, 1898

Cedros Island Mule Deer, "Odocoileus hemionus cerrosensis", is a subspecies of Mule Deer. It is found only on Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California. There is only about 50 individuals remaining with no captive population. It's behavior is similar to other subspecies of mule deer.

Reference

[http://books.google.ca/books?id=jTMY7Fp01zcC&pg=PA438&lpg=PA438&dq=Cedros+Island+mule+deer&source=web&ots=bVV4_E4ihc&sig=7Y6lSeJQn_N9x7xwMWp5TQjijgw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA438,M1]

ee also

*California Mule Deer
*Black-tailed Deer
*Sitka Deer
*White-tailed Deer


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