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Taxonomy:
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Cordata
Class:
Mamalia
Order:
Atiodactyal
Family:
Cervidae
Sub-family:
Capreolinae
Genus:
Odocoileus
Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer of the family Cervidae, containing two species native to North Americas. The name is sometimes spelled odocoeleus and the word is from a contraction of the odonto- and coelus meaning hollow-tooth.
North America
Species:
O. hemionus
Subspecies:
Sitka black-tailed deer (O. hemionus sitkensis)
Columbian black-tailed deer (O. hemionus columbianus)
California mule deer (O. hemionus californicus)
Southern mule deer (O. hemionus fuliginatus)
Peninsular mule deer (O. hemionus peninsulae)
Desert mule deer (O. hemionus eremicus)
Rocky Mountain mule deer (O. hemionus hemionus)
Species:
O. virginianjus
Subspecies
Florida Key deer (Odocoilues virginianus clavium)
Virginia white-tail (Odocoilues virginianus virginianus)
Seneca White Deer (Odocoilues virginianus leucism)
A small herd (about 300) of white, white-tailed deer in Seneca, New York.
Now living in a commercial Nature Park opened in 2017. These deer are
not albino, but instead have leucism, which is an abnormal genetic
condition that carries a set of recessive genes for all-white coats.
There are numerous other sub-species, too numerous to list here.
Central America
Species:
O. pandora
Common Name
Brown Brocket Deer
Subspecies:
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