Odocoileini Explained

Odocoileini is a tribe of deer, containing seven extant genera and several extinct ones.

The common character of this tribe is vomerine septum that completely separates the choana.^[1]

Phylogeny

Phylogeny by Gilbert et al. 2006^[2] and Duarte et al. 2008,^[3] that showed Mazama is polyphyletic.

Notes and References

1. Brooke, V., 1878. On the classiWcation of the Cervidae, with a synopsis ofthe existing species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 883–928.
2. Gilbert, C. . Ropiquet, A. . Hassanin, A. . Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies of Cervidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia): Systematics, morphology, and biogeography . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 2006 . 40 . 1 . 101–117 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.017 . 16584894 .
3. José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Susana González, Jesus E. Maldonado, The surprising evolutionary history of South American deer, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22, ISSN 1055-7903, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.009.