Cervus axis
Date 1841-1852
Source/Photographer Vaillant, Voyage autour du monde ... sur la corvette La Bonite, Mammifères, pl. 12
Old Latin name Cervus axis
New Latin name Axis axis
Common name Nederlands: Axishert
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The chital or cheetal or spotted deer or axis deer (Axis axis) is a deer found in the Indian subcontinent. Axis deer is sexually dimorphic: males are larger than females, and antlers are present only on males. The upper parts are golden to rufous, completely covered in white spots.