Cervus mariannus = Rusa marianna (Philippine sambar, Philippine brown deer) Rusa of the Marianas.
Cervus mariannus
Date between 1827 and 1835
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264179
Author Bull; Georges Cuvier; George Robert Gray; John Edward Gray; Edward Griffith; Edward Pidgeon; Charles Hamilton Smith; J. O. Westwood
Full title The animal kingdom : arranged in conformity with its organization /
Source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThe_animal_kingdom_%28Pl._11%29_%288188105433%29.jpg
The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is a vulnerable deer species endemic to the Philippines. It was first described from introduced populations in the Mariana Islands, hence the specific name. The Philippine brown deer is relatively smaller than its relative, the sambar deer. The Philippine deer is endemic to the Philippines, where it occurs in the islands of Luzon, Polillo and Catanduanes, Mindoro, Samar, Mindanao and Leyte.
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Rusa
Species: Rusa marianna (Desmarest, 1822)
Synonyms
- Cervus mariannus
