Subspecies Cervus timorensis moluccensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830

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• Cervus moluccensis Quoy, [J.R.C.] & Gaimard, [J.P.] 1830. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par Ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sur le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 268 pp. 59 pls. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. - Part 2. Ferret and Galinier's 'Voyage en Abyssinie'; Lefebres' 'Voyage en Abyssinie'; 'Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie'; Castelnau's 'Amerique du Sud'; Dumont d'Urvilles 'Voyage de l'Astrolabe'; Laplace's 'Voyage sur la Favorite'; Jacquemonts' 'Voyage dans l'Inde'; Tréhouarts' 'Commission scientifique de' Islande'; Cailliaud, 'Voyage à Méroé'; 'Expedition scientifique de Morée'; Fabre, 'Commission scientifique du Nord'; Du Petit-Thouars, 'Voyage de la Venus'; and on the dates of the 'Faune Française'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333–336[333]] [133] [recorded from Australia by Whitehead, G.K. 1972. Deer of the World. London : Constable xii 194 pp. 33 pls [138]].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown status unknown (not found in MNHP), Buru Pulau, Ambon Pulau (as l'île Bourou and Amboine); Van Bemmel (1949: 259)) identified the type locality as Buru Island.

  Type locality references:

  Van Bemmel, A.C.V. 1949. Review of the rusine deer in the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Treubia 20: 191-262 pls 2-5; de Beaufort, F. 1963. Catalogue des types d'ongules du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris et recherches sur ces types. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 2 35: 551-579.

  Secondary source:

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

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait, N Qld.

Introduced from Indonesia and Malaysia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, gregarious, herbivore, open forest, 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)