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GENUS Mazama

Author: Rafinesque, 1817.

Type Species: Mazama pita Rafinesque, 1817 (= Moschus americanus Erxleben, 1777).

Comments: Revised by Czernay (1987). The genus includes brown brockets (gouazoubira, pandora), red brockets (americana, temama), and small brockets (bororo, bricenii, chunyi, nana, rufina); it has not been established that brown or small brockets are monophyletic groups.

Offspring:

SPECIES americana

SUBSPECIES americana

SUBSPECIES carrikeri

SUBSPECIES gualea

SUBSPECIES jucunda

SUBSPECIES rosii

SUBSPECIES rufa

SUBSPECIES sarae

SUBSPECIES sheila

SUBSPECIES trinitatis

SUBSPECIES whitelyi