Deer, Musk-deer and Mouse-deer

1974 A note on the systematic position of the Muntjac (Artiodactyla, Cervidae). Z.f. Saugetierk. 39:369-372.

1976 Taxonomy of Moschus (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) of the Indian region. J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 72:662-676, Dec. 1975.

An example of the over-lumping to which I was prone in the early years.

1978 (with C. Smeenk). On the Type material of Cervus nippon Temminck, 1836; with a revision of Sika Deer from the main Japanese islands. Zool. Meded. Leiden 53:11-28.

1980 A further note on Moschus. J. Bombay N.H. Soc. 77:130-3.

1982 (with P. Grubb). The species of Muntjac (genus Muntiacus) in Borneo: unrecognised sympatry in tropical deer. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 56:203-216.

The long-cited rumour that two distinct species of muntjac live sympatric in Borneo is supported by abundant voucher specimens. One species is the widespread Red Muntjac ( Muntiacus muntjak ); the other is Muntiacus atherodes new species.

1983 Geographic variation in the Barasingha or Swamp Deer (Cervus duvauceli). J. Bombay N.H. Soc. 79:620-629.

Cervus duvauceli ranjitsinhi new subspecies, from Assam, named in honour of eminent conservationist M.K.Ranjitsinh.

1983 (with P. Grubb). Notes on the Taxonomy of the Deer (Mammalia, Cervidae) of the Philippines. Zool. Anz. Jena 210:119-144.

1986 (with Feng Zuojian). The status of Musk Deer from Anhui Province, China. Acta Theriol. Sin 6:101-6.

1986 (with P. Grubb) Relationships of Living Deer. In C.Wemmer (ed), Biology and Management of the Cervidae 21-59.

1989 Cervidae. Pp.1054-1060 in Fauna of Australia: Vol. 1B, Mammalia. (D.W. Alton & B.J. Richardson, eds.). AGPS, Canberra.

1990 (with P.Grubb). Muntiacidae. In G.A. Bubenik & A.B. Bubenik (eds) Horns, Pronghorns and Antlers, 132-68.

We would no longer recognize family Muntiacidae; muntjac belong to Cervidae, subfamily Cervinae.

1995 Domesticated and Commensal Mammals of Austronesia and their Histories. Pp. 152-163 in The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (P. Bellwood, J.J. Fox and D. Tryon, eds.). Canberra: Department of Anthropology, ANU.

1995 (with Wang Yingxiang and Peter Grubb). Taxonomy of Musk-deer, genus Moschus (Moschidae, Mammalia). Acta Theriologica Sinica, 15:181-197.

2003. Taxonomy of ungulates of the Indian Subcontinent. J.Bombay N.H.Soc.100:341-362.

2004 (with E.Meijaard). A taxonomic revision of the Tragulus mouse-deer (Artiodactyla). Zool.J.Linn.Soc.140:63-102.

2004 (with E.Meijaard). Morphometrical relationships between South-east Asian deer (Cervidae, tribe Cervini): evolutionary and biogeographic implications. J.Zool.Lond., 263:179-196.

2004 (with C.Pitra, J.Fickel & E.Meijaard). Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer. Mol.Phyl.Evol. 33:880-895.

Confirms that Wapiti do not constitute a monophyletic group with Red Deer, and proposes that both may in fact be divisible into several different species. We propose a scenario of the evolution and deployment of the Cervini.

2005 (with E. Meijaard). Interspecific variation in Moschiola, the Indian chevrotain. Raffles Bull.Zool., Suppl. No. 12: 413-421.

The genus Moschiola is divided into three species: M.indica (India), M. meminna (dry zone of Sri Lanka) and M. kathygre new species (wet zone of Sri Lanka).

2005 The genus Cervus in eastern Eurasia. Eur.J.Wildl.Res. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10344-005-0011-5

Cervus wallichi, C. macneilli and C. xanthopygus are distinct species, not subspecies of C. canadensis (still less are they subspecies of C. elaphus). C. nippon should actually be divided into four species. The generic arrangement of the Cervini needs to be slightly modified.