Little red brocket
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Tribe: | Odocoileini |
| Genus: | Andinocervus Ramirez-Chaves, Morales-Martinez, Cardona-Giraldo, Ossa-Lopez, Rivera-Paez & Noguera-Urbano, 2025 |
| Species: | A. rufinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Andinocervus rufinus (Pucheran, 1851)
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The little red brocket or swamp brocket (Andinocervus rufinus[2]), also known as the Ecuador red brocket,[3] is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between 1,400 and 3,600 metres (4,600 and 11,800 ft).[1] It is one of the smallest brocket deer. The coat is reddish, and the legs and crown are blackish.[4] It was previously assigned to the genus Mazama, and as recently as 1999, some authorities included both the pygmy brocket (M. nana) and Merida brocket (M. bricenii) as subspecies of the little red brocket.[5]
The little red brocket may have formed an important part of the diet of the people of the Pleistocene Las Vegas culture.[6]
References
- ^ a b Lizcano, D. and Alvarez, S.J. (2016). "Mazama rufina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T12914A22165586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12914A22165586.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E.; Morales-Martínez, Darwin M.; Cardona-Giraldo, Alexandra; Castellanos, Oscar; Ospina, Oscar; Ossa-López, Paula A.; Rivera-Páez, Fredy A.; Noguera-Urbano, Elkin A. (2025-10-17). "Systematics of the dwarf red brocket, Mazama rufina (Pucheran, 1851) (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Cervidae), with the description of a new genus". Zootaxa. 5711 (2): 223–240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5711.2.4. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 637–722. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Trolle, M., and L. H. Emmons (2004). A record of a dwarf brocket from lowland Madre de Dios, Peru. Deer Specialist Group Newsletter 19: 2-5
- ^ Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ^ Salazar, Ernesto (2003). "Historie del Ecuador: Los primeros habitantes". La Hora (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2008-07-14.