Java Mouse-deer

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Java Mouse-deer

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tragulidae
Genus: Tragulus
Species: T. javanicus
Binomial name
Tragulus javanicus
(Osbeck, 1765)

The Java Mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the Tragulidae family. At full grown it is about the size of a rabbit. It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is the smallest hooved animal in the world.

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