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Key deer | |
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A female on Big Pine Key | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
Genus: | Odocoileus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | O. v. clavium
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Trinomial name | |
Odocoileus virginianus clavium Barbour & G. M. Allen, 1922
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Key Deer range |
The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered subspecies of the white-tailed deer that lives only in the Florida Keys. It is the smallest extant North American deer species.[2]