Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Cervidae > Elaphodus > Elaphodus cephalophusElaphodus cephalophus (tufted deer)The tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus) is a small species of deer characterized by a prominent tuft of black hair on its forehead and fang-like canines for the males. It is a close relative of the muntjac, living somewhat further north over a wide area of central China northeastern Myanmar. Suffering from overhunting and habitat loss, this deer is considered near-threatened. It is the only member of the genus Elaphodus. It is restricted to forested mountain habitat up to 4500 m above sea level, making study difficult. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 14.17 EDGE Score: 3.41 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 73.855 lbs (33.50 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 1 year 9 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 2 years | | | Gestation [1] | 6 months | | Litter Size [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 23 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 5.248 feet (160 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Changjiang Plain evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Daba Mountains evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests |
Myanmar, India, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
China, India, Bhutan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Northern Indochina subtropical forests |
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle subtropical forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle temperate forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Mountains of Southwest China |
China, Myanmar |
No |
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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) ♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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