Ozotoceros bezoarticus (Linnaeus 1758)

[Cervus] bezoarticus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 67.

Type Locality: "Habitat in America australis"; identified as Brazil, Pernambuco (Thomas, 1911 a:151) .

Vernacular Names: Pampas Deer.

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Subspecies Ozotoceros bezoarticus subsp. bezoarticus Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Ozotoceros bezoarticus subsp. arerunguaensis González, Álvares-Valin and Maldonado 2002

Subspecies Ozotoceros bezoarticus subsp. celer Cabrera 1943

Subspecies Ozotoceros bezoarticus subsp. leucogaster Goldfuss 1817

Subspecies Ozotoceros bezoarticus subsp. uruguayensis González, Álvares-Valin and Maldonado 2002

Distribution: N Argentina, SE Bolivia, Brazil (S of Amazon), Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as O. b. uruguayensis and O. b. arerunguaenis, Endangered as O. b. celer, Data Deficient as O. b. bezoarticus, Lower Risk (nt) as O. b. leucogaster .

Discussion: Reviewed by Jackson (1987, Mammalian Species, 295). Widely known in the older literature as Blastocerus or Cariacus campestris (= Cervus campestris F. Cuvier, 1817), a name which is properly a junior synonym of Odocoilelus virginianus cariacou.