Subspecies Axis axis axis (Erxleben, 1777)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cervus axis Erxleben, J.C.P. 1777. Systema Regni Animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis 1 Mammalia. Lepsiae : Impensis Weygandianis xlviii 700 pp. [312].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, 'ad ripas Gangis..; in Iaua, Ceylona'.

  Type locality references:

  Lydekker, R. 1915. Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 4 Artiodactyla, Families Cervidae (deer), Tragulidae (chevrotains), Camelidae (camels and llamas), Suidae (pigs and peccaries), and Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses). London : British Museum xxii 438 pp. [50] (identified the type locality as 'the plains of Peninsula India').
• Cervus axis ceylonensis Fischer, J.B. 1829. Synopsis Mammalium. Stuttgardtiae : J.G. Cottae xlii 752 pp. [619 (as 419)] [recorded from Australia by Whitehead, G.K. 1972. Deer of the World. London : Constable xii 194 pp. 33 pls [136]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Sri Lanka (as Ceylon).

  Secondary source:

   Whitehead, G.K. 1972. Deer of the World. London : Constable xii 194 pp. 33 pls.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from India.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, folivore, gregarious, herbivore, nocturnal, open forest, temperate, terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Dec-2010		16-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)