Water deer

Water deer
Male water deer at the Whipsnade Zoo
Female and fawn at Hickling, Norfolk
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Tribe: Capreolini
Genus: Hydropotes
R. Swinhoe, 1870
Species:
H. inermis
Binomial name
Hydropotes inermis
(R. Swinhoe, 1870)
Range of water deer

The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is a small deer species native to Korea and China. It has prominent tusks, unlike all other living true deer. It was first described to the Western world by Robert Swinhoe in 1870.

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