LIST OF ALL LIVING DEER SPECIES*
*list does not include subspecies


OLD WORLD DEER


Elk, Red Deer & Relatives

 1• elk (wapiti), red deer (Cervus elaphus)**
 2• sambar (Cervus unicolor)
 3• Sunda sambar (Cervus timorensis)
 4• Philippine sambar (Cervus mariannus)
 5• barasingha (Cervus duvauceli)
 6• Schomburgk’s deer (Cervus schomburgki)
 7• thamin or brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi)
 8• sika deer (Cervus nippon)
 9• Thorold’s deer (Cervus albirostris)

**Even though the elk and red deer look and behave differently, they are currently listed as the same species.


Other Old World Deer

10• moose (Alces alces)
11• caribou or reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
12• Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis)
13• muntjacs or barking deer  (Muntiacus muntjak, M. rooseveltorum, M. reevesi, M. crinifrons & M. feae)
14• tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus)
15• fallow deer (Dama dama)
16• chital or spotted deer (Axis axis)
17• hog deer (Axis porcinus)
18• Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus)


NEW WORLD DEER


19• white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
20• black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
21• marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
22• pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus)
23• guemals or huemuls (Hippocamelus antisensis & H. bisulcus)
24• brocket deer (Mazama americana, M. gouazoubira, M. rufina & M. chunyi)
25• pudus (Pudu pudu & Pudu mephistophiles)
26• roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)


(non deer mistaken for deer: musk deer and chevrotains, or mouse deer)