Manchurian wapiti

Mantchurian Elk
Conservation status
Data Deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Ruminantia
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Cervinae
Genus:	Cervus
Species:	C. canadensis
Subspecies:	C. c. xanthopygus
Binomial name
Cervus canadensis (Erxleben, 1777)[1]
Trinomial name
Cervus canadensis xanthopygus

The Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus) is a subspecies of elk, native to eastern Asia.

Description

This deer is reddish brown during summer, and brownish gray in winter. It has dark hairs on the neck and dark underparts, followed by a light-colored rump patch. It is smaller than North American elks (Cervus canadensis canadensis) with smaller and stouter antlers.

Male deer are wapiti-like with a neck mane, and as mentioned, relatively small wapiti-like antlers. Female deer are more red deer-like and lack neck manes. This deer is the most red deer-like of the wapitis, being adapted to mixed deciduous forest environments in Manchuria, Yakutia, Northern China, and North Korea. Like many Red deer, adult deer may have some visible spots in their summer coats.

Range

This deer is found in southeastern Siberia (to the east of Lake Baikal), northeastern Mongolia, Manchuria, northern Korea, and northeastern China. Similar forms from Alxa, Gansu, Shanxi and southern Mongolia were originally described as a distinct subspecies, the Alashan-Wapiti (Cervus candiensis alashanicus). However recent genetic research indicates that this deer belongs to the Manchurian subspecies.^[2]

References

1. ^ Erxleben, J.C.P. (1777) Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis.
2. ^ Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus), by Christian J. Ludt. In Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31 (2004), p. 1064–1083. Online copy

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