Yucatan brown brocket

The Yucatan brown brocket (Odocoileus pandora) is a small species of deer native to Central America.

Yucatan brown brocket
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Genus:	Odocoileus
Species:	O. pandora
Binomial name
Odocoileus pandora (Merriam, 1901)
Synonyms
Mazama pandora Merriam, 1901

Taxonomy

It has been previously treated as a disjunct subspecies of the gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) or a subspecies of the red brocket (M. americana).^[2] In 2021, the American Society of Mammalogists placed it in the genus Odocoileus.^[3]

Description

Among other features, the Yucatan brown brocket differs from both the red brocket and the gray brocket in the shape and measurements of the skull and antlers.^[2] It also differs from the Central American red brocket (M. temama) which is locally sympatric with the Yucatan brown brocket, in its gray-brown, rather than overall reddish, color.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

O. pandora is found in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.^[4] While it is found in humid tropical forest like most other brocket deer, the Yucatan brown brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats.^[2]

Odocoileus pandora

References

1. Weber, M.; de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A.D. (2016). "Mazama pandora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29622A22154219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T29622A22154219.en. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
2. Medellín, Rodrigo A.; Alfred L. Gardner; J. Marcelo Aranda (April 1998). "The taxonomic status of the Yucatán brown brocket, Mazama pandora (Mammalia: Cervidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 111 (1): 1–14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
3. Gutiérrez, E. E.; Helgen, K. M.; McDonough, M. M.; Bauer, F.; Hawkins, M. T.; Escobedo-Morales, L. A.; Patterson, B. D.; Maldonado, J. E. (2017). "A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling". ZooKeys (697): 87–131. Bibcode:2017ZooK..697...87G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.697.15124. PMC 5673856. PMID 29134018.
4. Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 637–722. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.