Alpine Musk Deer

Alpine Musk Deer
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Moschidae
Genus:	Moschus
Species:	M. chrysogaster
Binomial name
Moschus chrysogaster Hodgson, 1839

The Alpine Musk Deer (Moschus chrysogaster) is a species of musk deer. It is occurs the highlands of central China, south and west to the Himalayas. Two subspecies are recognized:

• M. c. chrysogaster, Southern Tibet.
• M. c. sifanicus, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan.

Records from the Himalayan foothills are now considered a separate species, the Himalayan Musk Deer.

References

1. ^ Wang, Y., Harris, R.B. (2008). Moschus chrysogaster. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 March 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of endangered.

External links

• Distribution and population status of Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, Nepal

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