Subspecies Cervus unicolor unicolor Kerr, 1792

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cervus axis unicolor Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia, containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls. [300].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, 'the dry hilly forests of Ceylon, Borneo, Celebes, and Java'.

  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. [73] (identified the type locality as Ceylon).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Sri Lanka.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, herbivore, montane, 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)