Brocket deer

Brocket deer
Gray brocket (M. gouazoubira)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Tribe: Odocoileini
Genus: Mazama
Rafinesque, 1817
Type species
Mazama pita
Rafinesque, 1817
Species

M. americana
M. bororo
M. bricenii
M. chunyi
M. gouazoubira
M. nana
M. nemorivaga
M. pandora
M. rufina
M. temama
M. tienhoveni

Brockets or brocket deer are the species of deer in the genus Mazama. They are medium to small in size, and are found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Central and South America, and the island of Trinidad. Most species are primarily found in forests. They are superficially similar to the African duikers and the Asian muntjacs, but only distantly related. About 10 species of brocket deer are described.

The genus name Mazama is derived from Nahuatl mazame, the plural of mazatl "deer".[1] The common English name "brocket" (from French brocart < broche, spindle) comes from the word for a stag in its second year, with unbranched antlers.[2]

  1. ^ Bright, William (2007). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.
  2. ^ Cf. "brocket, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 August 2017.