Tian Shan wapiti

Tian Shan wapiti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Cervinae
Genus: Cervus
Species:
Subspecies:
C. c. songaricus
Trinomial name
Cervus canadensis songaricus
(Erxleben, 1777)[1]

The Tian Shan wapiti or Tian Shan maral (Cervus canadensis songaricus), is a subspecies of C. canadensis. It is also called the Tian Shan elk in North American English.

  1. ^ Erxleben, J. C. P. (1777). Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis.