Family MOSCHIDAE Gray, 1821

Traditionally, musk deer were classified in the Cervidae, but the presence of a series of diagnostic characters (smaller size than Cervidae; large upper canines and absence of antlers; entocarotid branches absent; tensor tympani chamber shallowed and pocketed in lateral wall; stapedial muscle chamber large and transversely elongated) supported the separate Family Moschidae (Webb & Taylor 1980) . Korea houses a single species of Moschidae .