A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Cervidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Eurasian ElkAlces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Calamian DeerAxis calamianensis (Heude, 1888) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bawean DeerAxis kuhlii (Temminck, 1836) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hog DeerAxis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Marsh DeerBlastocerus dichotomus (Illiger, 1815) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern Roe DeerCapreolus pygargus (Pallas, 1771) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Thorold's deerCervus albirostris Przewalski, 1883 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| WapitiCervus canadensis Erxleben, 1777 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central Asian Red DeerCervus hanglu Wagner, 1844 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Fallow DeerDama dama (Linnaeus, 1758) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mesopotamian fallow deerDama mesopotamica (Brooke, 1875) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tufted DeerElaphodus cephalophus Milne-Edwards, 1872 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Père David's DeerElaphurus davidianus Milne-Edwards, 1866 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North Andean huemulHippocamelus antisensis (d'Orbigny, 1834) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chilean GuemalHippocamelus bisulcus (Molina, 1782) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese Water DeerHydropotes inermis Swinhoe, 1870 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Red BrocketMazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Red BrocketMazama bororo Duarte, 1996 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Dwarf BrocketMazama chunyi Hershkovitz, 1959 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Brown BrocketMazama gouazoubira (G. Fischer von Waldheim, 1814) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser BrocketMazama nanus (Hensel, 1872) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amazonian Brown BrocketMazama nemorivaga (F. Cuvier, 1817) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ecuador Red BrocketMazama rufina (Bourcier & Pucheran, 1852) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central American Red BrocketMazama temama (Kerr, 1792) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bornean Yellow MuntjacMuntiacus atherodes Groves & Grubb, 1982 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black MuntjacMuntiacus crinifrons (P. L. Sclater, 1885) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fea's MuntjacMuntiacus feae (Thomas & Doria, 1889) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gongshan MuntjacMuntiacus gongshanensis Ma, 1990 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Malabar Red MuntjacMuntiacus malabaricus Lydekker, 1915 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indian muntjacMuntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann, 1780) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Puhoat MuntjacMuntiacus puhoatensis Trai, 1997 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Leaf DeerMuntiacus putaoensis Amato, Egan & Rabinowitz, 1999 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Reeves' MuntjacMuntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Roosevelt MuntjacMuntiacus rooseveltorum Osgood, 1932 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Annamite MuntjacMuntiacus truongsonensis (Giao, Tuoc, Eric [Wikramanayake], Dung et al. in Ha, 1997) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Red MuntjacMuntiacus vaginalis (Boddaert, 1785) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mule DeerOdocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yucatan Brown BrocketOdocoileus pandora (Merriam, 1901) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-tailed DeerOdocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pampas DeerOzotoceros bezoarticus (Linnaeus, 1758) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brow-antlered DeerPanolia eldii (M'Clelland, 1842) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern PuduPudu mephistophiles (de Winton, 1896) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern PuduPudu puda (Molina, 1782) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| CaribouRangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| BarasinghaRucervus duvaucelii (G. Cuvier, 1823) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Schomburgk's DeerRucervus schomburgki (Blyth, 1863) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Philippine Spotted DeerRusa alfredi (P. L. Sclater, 1870) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Philippine Brown DeerRusa marianna (Desmarest, 1822) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Javan RusaRusa timorensis (Blainville, 1822) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| SambarRusa unicolor (Kerr, 1792) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.