| Rocky Mountain elk | |
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| Male Rocky Mountain elk | |
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| Female Rocky Mountain elk | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Genus: | Cervus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. c. nelsoni
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cervus canadensis nelsoni | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cervus elaphus nelsoni | |
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2012) |
The Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.
- ^ NatureServe. 2016. Cervus elaphus nelsoni, Rocky Mountain Elk. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.104511/Cervus_elaphus_nelsoni. Accessed 9 December 2021.
- ^ Erxleben, J.C.P. (1777) Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis.