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| Key deer | |
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| A female on Big Pine Key | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Genus: | Odocoileus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | O. v. clavium
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| Trinomial name | |
| Odocoileus virginianus clavium Barbour & G. M. Allen, 1922
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| Key Deer range | |
The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered subspecies of the white-tailed deer that lives only in the Florida Keys. It is the smallest extant North American deer species.[2]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Key Deer". National Wildlife Federation. Retrieved 2021-06-17.