Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898

Hydropotinae Trouessart 1898, Cat. Mamm. Viv. Foss., new ed., fasc. 4: 865.

Genera: 1 genus with 1 species:

Genus Hydropotes Swinhoe 1870 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Discussion: Affinities controversial; from cladistic analysis of skeletal characters, distanced from all other Cervidae by Gentry and Hooker (1988), making Cervidae paraphyletic if included; so perhaps to be placed in a different family; alternatively nested within Odocoileinae (= Capreolinae), close to Capreolus, by Randi et al. (1998), using mtDNA studies, and inferred to have lost antlers secondarily.