Merida Brocket

Mérida Brocket[1]
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Genus:	Mazama
Species:	M. bricenii
Binomial name
Mazama bricenii (Thomas, 1908)

The Mérida Brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Merioa Brocket or Rufous Brocket,^[2][3] is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,000–3,500 metres (3,300–11,500 ft) in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela.^[2] It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987,^[1] though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). "Order Artiodactyla (pp. 637-722)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 656. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200245. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Lizcano, D. J. & Alvarez, S. J. (2008). Mazama bricenii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
3. ^ "Mazama bricenii". ZipcodeZoo. BayScience Foundation, Inc.. http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Mazama_bricenii/. Retrieved 10 October 2010. 
4. ^ Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.