| Scottish red deer | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Genus: | Cervus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. e. scoticus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cervus elaphus scoticus Lönnberg, 1906
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The Scottish red deer (Cervus elaphus scoticus) is a subspecies of red deer,[1] which is native to Great Britain. Like the red deer of Ireland, it migrated from continental Europe sometime in the Stone Age. The Scottish red deer is farmed for meat, antlers and hides.[2][3]
- ^ "Taxonomy – Cervus elaphus scoticus (Scottish red deer)". Universal Protein Resource (UniProt). Cambridge, Geneva, Washington DC: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI); SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; and Protein Information Resource (PIR). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "An introduction to deer farming". The Scottish Farmer. 7 July 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Venison expert calls for multi-million pound investment into deer farms". Deadline News. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2019.