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Yucatan brown brocket

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Cervidae

Scientific name
  
Mazama pandora

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Artiodactyla

Subfamily
  
Capreolinae

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Merida brocket, Dwarf brocket, Central American red brocket, Pygmy brocket, Little red brocket

The Yucatan brown brocket (Mazama pandora) is a small species of deer native to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. While it is found in humid tropical forest like most other brocket deer, the Yucatan brown brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats. It has been treated as a disjunct subspecies of the gray brocket or a subspecies of the red brocket (Mazama americana).

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. It also differs from the Central American red brocket, which is locally sympatric with the Yucatan brown brocket, in its gray-brown, rather than overall reddish, color.

References

Yucatan brown brocket Wikipedia