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Cervus nippon, Sika deer(s)

Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838

Invalid synonym: Cervus natsumei, Cervus (Sika) natusmei (D. R. McCullough, S. Takatsuki, and K. Kaji Ed., 2009)

• Modern species

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Cetartiodactyla, family Cervidae, genus Cervus

• Distribution
• Quaternary: Fukushima, Aichi
• Pleistocene: Nagano, Chiba, Shizuoka, Gifu, Yamaguchi

• Subtaxa
• C. n. subsp. yesoensis, Hokkaido sika deer