Odocoileini

Odocoileini
Odocoileus virginianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Tribe:	Odocoileini
Genera
Rangifer Blastocerus Odocoileus Mazama Subulo Ozotoceros Pudu Pudella Hippocamelus † Pavlodaria [1]

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana. ^[2]

Phylogeny

Phylogeny by Gilbert et al. 2006 ^[3] and Duarte et al. 2008, ^[4] that showed Mazama is polyphyletic.

	Odocoileini Rangifer tarandus Pudu puda Mazama americana 1 Odocoileus Mazama americana 2 (paraphyletic) Mazama bororo Mazama nana Mazama nemorivaga Ozotoceros Hippocamelus antisensis Blastocerus dichotomus Hippocamelus bisulcus Mazama gouazoubira Alceini Capreolini

References

1. Vislobokova, I., 1980. The systematic position of a deer from Pavlodar and the origin of neocervinae. Paleontology J. 3, 97–111.
2. Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.
3. Gilbert, C.; Ropiquet, A.; Hassanin, A. (2006). "Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): Systematics, morphology, and biogeography". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (1): 101–117. Bibcode:2006MolPE..40..101G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.017. PMID   16584894.
4. José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Susana González, Jesus E. Maldonado, The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.009.