Capreolinae
Subfamily of mammals
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The subfamily is sometimes called New World deer in English, though it includes reindeer, elk, water deer and roe deer, all of which live in Eurasia in the Old World.
Classification
The following extant genera and species are accepted:
- Tribe Capreolini
- Genus Capreolus
- Roe deer (C. capreolus)
- Siberian roe deer (C. pygargus)
- Genus Hydropotes
- Water deer (H. inermis)
- Genus Capreolus
- Tribe Alceini
- Genus Alces
- Moose or (Eurasian) elk (A. alces)
- Genus Alces
- Tribe Odocoileini
- Genus Rangifer
- Caribou/reindeer (R. tarandus)
- Genus Odocoileus
- Mule deer (O. hemionus)
- White-tailed deer (O. virginianus)
- Yucatan brown brocket (O. pandora)
- Genus Blastocerus
- Marsh deer (B. dichotomus)
- Genus Hippocamelus
- Taruca (H. antisensis)
- South Andean deer or huemul (H. bisulcus)
- Genus Mazama
- Central American red brocket (M. temama)
- Red brocket (M. americana) (This species has been found to be closer to Odocoileus than other brockets.)
- Genus Andinocervus
- Small red brocket or bororo (A. bororo)
- Pygmy brocket (A. nanus)
- Merida brocket (A. bricenii)
- Little red brocket (A. rufinus)
- Genus Ozotoceros
- Pampas deer (O. bezoarticus)
- Genus Passalites
- Amazonian brown brocket (P. nemorivagus)
- Genus Pudu
- Southern pudu (P. pudu)
- Genus Pudella
- Peruvian Yungas pudu (P. carlae)
- Northern pudu (P. mephistophiles)
- Genus Subulo
- Gray brocket (S. gouazoubira)
- Dwarf brocket (S. chunyi)
- Genus Rangifer
Extinct genera and species
- †Agalmaceros
- †Alces gallicus
- †Antifer
- †Bretzia
- †Cervalces
- †C. carnutorum
- †C. scotti
- †C. latifrons
- †Eocoileus
- †Libralces
- †Morenelaphus
- †Odocoileus lucasi
- †Pavlodaria
- †Procapreolus
- †Torontoceros
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