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Muntiacus crinifrons (black muntjac)

Synonyms: Cervulus crinifrons

Wikipedia Abstract

The hairy-fronted muntjac or black muntjac (Muntiacus crinifrons) is a type of deer currently found in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian in southeastern China. It is considered to be endangered, possibly down to as few as 5–10,000 individuals spread over a wide area. Reports of hairy-fronted muntjacs from Burma result from considering the hairy-fronted muntjac and Gongshan muntjac as the same species. This suggestion is controversial. It is similar in size to the common muntjac.
View Wikipedia Record: Muntiacus crinifrons

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Muntiacus crinifrons

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
38
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.15
EDGE Score: 3.2
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  40.984 lbs (18.59 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  6 months 16 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.33 feet (132 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Changjiang Plain evergreen forests China Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests China Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  
Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve 47993 China  
Yangzie Nature Reserve 107078 China      

Prey / Diet

Cephalotaxus fortunei (Fortune's plum yew)[4]
Itea omeiensis[4]
Smilax glabra (Chinaroot)[4]
Trachelospermum jasminoides (confederate jasmine)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Elaphodus cephalophus (tufted deer)1

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
♦ 4"Seasonal food habits of the black muntjac Muntiacus crinifrons", ZHENG Rong-Quan, BAO Yi-Xin, Current Zoology Apr. 2007, 53(2): 201 - 207
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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