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Moschus berezovskii (Chinese forest musk deer)

Wikipedia Abstract

The dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii, Chinese: 林麝; pinyin: Lín shè) is an artiodactyl native to southern and central China and northernmost Vietnam. On June 14, 1976, China entered the dwarf musk deer onto its endangered species list. Four subspecies are recognized: \n* M. b. berezovskii \n* M. b. bijiangensis \n* M. b. caobangis \n* M. b. yanguiensis
View Wikipedia Record: Moschus berezovskii

Infraspecies

Moschus berezovskii berezovskii
Moschus berezovskii bijiangensis
Moschus berezovskii caobangis
Moschus berezovskii yanguiensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Moschus berezovskii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
55
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.31
EDGE Score: 4.31
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26.456 lbs (12.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.155 lbs (524 g)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 5 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 5 months
Gestation [1]  6 months 17 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  37 inches (95 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Panthera pardus fusca (Indian leopard)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Elaphodus cephalophus (Artiodactyla: Cervidae), DAVID M. LESLIE, JR., DANA N. LEE, AND RICHARD W. DOLMAN, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 45(904):80–91 (2013)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0