Yucatan brown brocket
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The Yucatan brown brocket (Odocoileus pandora) is a small species of deer native to Central America.
Taxonomy
It has been previously treated as a disjunct subspecies of the gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) or a subspecies of the red brocket (M. americana).[1] In 2021, the American Society of Mammalogists placed it in the genus Odocoileus.[2]
Description
Among other features, the Yucatan brown brocket differs from both the red brocket and the gray brocket in the shape and measurements of the skull and antlers.[1] It also differs from the Central American red brocket (M. temama) which is locally sympatric with the Yucatan brown brocket, in its gray-brown, rather than overall reddish, color.[1]
Distribution and habitat
O. pandora is found in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.[3] While it is found in humid tropical forest like most other brocket deer, the Yucatan brown brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats.[1]
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