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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Tribe: | Cervini |
| Genus: | Axis Smith, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Cervus axis Erxleben, 1777
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Axis is a genus of deer occurring in South and Southeast Asia. As presently defined by most authorities, four species are placed in the genus. Three of the four species are called hog deer. The genus name is a word mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History.[1]
- ^ Pliny the Elder. "Natural History". Loeb Classical Library. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
in India [...] a wild animal, named axis, with the hide of a fawn but with more spots and whiter ones