Corsican red deer | |
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A male Corsican red deer | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Genus: | Cervus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | C. e. corsicanus
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Trinomial name | |
Cervus elaphus corsicanus Erxleben, 1777
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The Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), also known simply as the Corsican deer or Sardinian deer, is a subspecies of red deer (Cervus elaphus) found on the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France).