Merida brocket

Mérida Brocket[1]
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Genus:	Mazama
Species:	M. bricenii
Binomial name
Mazama bricenii (Thomas, 1908)

The Mérida Brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Merioa Brocket or Rufous Brocket,^[2][3] is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,000–3,500 metres (3,300–11,500 ft) in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela.^[2] It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987,^[1] though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.^[4]

References

1. Grubb, P. (2005). "Order Artiodactyla". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 656. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Lizcano, D. J. & Alvarez, S. J. (2008). Mazama bricenii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 10 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
3. "Mazama bricenii". ZipcodeZoo. BayScience Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
4. Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.