Odocoileus

Odocoileus; Temporal range: Pleistocene to present
	Odocoileus virginianus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Tribe:	Odocoileini
Genus:	Odocoileus; Rafinesque, 1832
Type species
	Odocoileus speleus; Rafinesque, 1832
Species
	Odocoileus hemionus; Odocoileus pandora; Odocoileus virginianus; †Odocoileus lucasi; †Odocoileus salinae

Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer (family Cervidae) containing three species native to the Americas.^[1]^[3]^[4] The name is sometimes spelled odocoeleus; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto- and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".

Extant species

Odocoileus hemionus	Mule deer	western half of North America.
Odocoileus pandora	Yucatan brown brocket	Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize)
Odocoileus virginianus	White-tailed deer	throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Odocoileus, [1] Mammal Species of the World, 3rd Edition
^ "Fossilworks: Odocoileus salinae". fossilworks.org.
^ Valerius Geist (1998). Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behaviour, and Ecology. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0496-0.
^ Gutiérrez, E. E., Helgen, K. M., McDonough, M. M., Bauer, F., Hawkins, M. T., Escobedo-Morales, L. A., ... & Maldonado, J. E. (2017). A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling. ZooKeys, (697), 87.
^ "IUCN Red List maps". Explore and discover Red List species ranges and observations.