Alceini

Alceini
Alces alces
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Tribe:	Alceini
Genera
Alces † Cervalces † Libralces

Alceini is a tribe of deer, containing the extant genus Alces and the extinct genera Cervalces and Libralces . The only extant species in this tribe is the moose. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Genera and species

• Extant genera
  • Alces
• Extinct genera
  • † Cervalces
  • † Libralces
  • † Cervus sivalensis?

References

1. Breda, M., Marchetti, M., 2005. Systematical and biochronological review of Plio-Pleistocene Alceini (Cervidae; Mammalia) from Eurasia. Quaternary Sci. Rev. 24, 775–805.
2. Heintz, E., Poplin, F., 1981. Alces carnutorum (Laugel, 1862) du Pleistocene de Saint-Prest (France). Systematique et evolution des Alcines (Cervidae, Mammalia). Quartarpalaontologie 4, 105–122.
3. Kahlke, H.D., 1990. On the evolution, distribution and taxonomy of fossil Elk/Moose. Quartarpalaontologie 8, 83–106.