iPedia Free Information Center

Information about Muntjac

Muntjac

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Suborder:Ruminantia
Family:Cervidae
Subfamily:Muntiacinae
Genus:Muntiacus
Rafinesque, 1815


Muntjac are deer of the genus Muntiacus, also known as Barking Deer. Muntjac are the oldest known deer, appearing 15-35 million years ago, with remains found in Miocene deposits in France and Germany.

The present-day species are native to Southeast Asia and can be found from India and Sri Lanka to southern China, Taiwan and Indonesian islands. Reeves's Muntjac has been introduced to England and is now common in some areas there. Being tropical, there is no seasonal rut and mating can take place at any time of year, a behaviour retained by populations introduced to temperate countries. Males have short antlers which can regrow but tend to fight with their tusks (downward pointing canine teeth) for territory.

Muntjac are of great interest in evolutionary studies because of their dramatic chromosome variations and recent discoveries of several new species.

Ten species:

Reference

The Belgian animal park Parc Paradisio has 3 Muntjaks in captivity. There is also an introduced population in the UK.
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
..... Click the link for more information.
Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled until (UTC) due to vandalism.
If you are prevented from editing this page, and you wish to make a change, please discuss changes on the talk page, request unprotection, log in, or
..... Click the link for more information.
Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
..... Click the link for more information.
Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

..... Click the link for more information.
Artiodactyla*
Owen, 1848

Families

Antilocapridae
Bovidae
Camelidae
Cervidae
Giraffidae
Hippopotamidae
Moschidae
Suidae
Tayassuidae
Tragulidae
Leptochoeridae †
Dichobunidae †
Cebochoeridae †
..... Click the link for more information.
Ruminantia
Scopoli, 1777

Families

 Tragulidae
 Moschidae
 Cervidae
 Giraffidae
 Antilocapridae
 Bovidae
The biological suborder Ruminantia
..... Click the link for more information.
Cervidae
Goldfuss, 1820

Subfamilies

Capreolinae/Odocoileinae
Cervinae
Hydropotinae
Muntiacinae

A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
..... Click the link for more information.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
..... Click the link for more information.
Cervidae
Goldfuss, 1820

Subfamilies

Capreolinae/Odocoileinae
Cervinae
Hydropotinae
Muntiacinae

A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
..... Click the link for more information.
The Miocene Epoch is a period of time that extends from about 23.03 to 5.332 million years before the present. As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the start and end are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are uncertain.
..... Click the link for more information.


Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, and north of Australia.
..... Click the link for more information.
This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved.
Protection is not an endorsement of the current [ version] ([ protection log]).
..... Click the link for more information.
Anthem
"Sri Lanka Matha"
Music   (help info ) , Singing   (help info )
..... Click the link for more information.
This page contains Chinese text.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.
China (Traditional Chinese:
..... Click the link for more information.
Republic of China. For other uses, see Taiwan (disambiguation).
Taiwan (Traditional Chinese: or ; Simplified Chinese:
..... Click the link for more information.
Motto
"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"   (Old Javanese)
"Unity in Diversity"
National ideology: Pancasila[1]
Anthem
Indonesia Raya
..... Click the link for more information.
Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
..... Click the link for more information.
The Rut is the period of time when antlered ungulates, such as deer, sheep, elk, moose, caribou, ibex, goats, pronghorn and Asian and African antelope, mate. The rut for white-tailed deer usually lasts from 1-3 months in the Northern Hemisphere and may occur most of the year in
..... Click the link for more information.
temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally mild, rather than extreme hot or cold. However, a temperate climate can have very unpredictable weather.
..... Click the link for more information.
Figure 1: A representation of a condensed eukaryotic chromosome, as seen during cell division.]] A chromosome is a single large macromolecule of DNA, and constitutes a physically organized form of DNA in a cell.
..... Click the link for more information.

..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. reevesi

Binomial name
Muntiacus reevesi
(Ogilby, 1839)


..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. crinifrons

Binomial name
Muntiacus crinifrons
(Sclater, 1885)
..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. feae

Binomial name
Muntiacus feae
(Thomas & Doria, 1889)
..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. atherodes

Binomial name
Muntiacus atherodes
Groves & Grubb, 1982
..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. rooseveltorum

Binomial name
Muntiacus rooseveltorum
..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. gongshanensis

Binomial name
Muntiacus gongshanensis
Ma, 1990
..... Click the link for more information.
M. vuquangensis

Binomial name
Muntiacus vuquangensis
(Wemmer et al., 1998)

Synonyms

Megamuntiacus vuquangensis (Do Tuoc et al.
..... Click the link for more information.
M. truongsonensis

Binomial name
Muntiacus truongsonensis
Giao et al., 1998

Truong Son Muntjac (Muntiacus truongsonensis) is a species of muntjac deer.
..... Click the link for more information.
muntiacinae

Genus: Muntiacus

Species: M. putaoensis

Binomial name
Muntiacus putaoensis
..... Click the link for more information.


This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
Herod_Archelaus


page counter