Odocoileini

Odocoileini
Odocoileus virginianus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Tribe: Odocoileini
Genera

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana.[2]

  1. ^ Vislobokova, I., 1980. The systematic position of a deer from Pavlodar and the origin of neocervinae. Paleontology J. 3, 97–111.
  2. ^ Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.