Dama Frisch, 1775

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 387

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Dama Frisch, 1775 View in CoL . Das Natur-System der Vierfüssigen Thiere, 3.

TYPE SPECIES: Cervus dama Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Dama as generic name for the Fallow Deer was validated by Opinion 581, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1960). Treated as a full genus, not a subgenus of Cervus by Groves and Grubb (1987).