| Alashan Wapiti | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Data Deficient
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ruminantia |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Cervinae |
| Genus: | Cervus |
| Species: | C. canadensis |
| Subspecies: | C. c. alashanicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cervus canadensis (Erxleben, 1777) |
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cervus canadensis alashanicus |
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The Alashan Wapiti is a subspecies of elk found in Northern China and Mongolia. It is the smallest subspecies of elk, has the lightest color, and is the least studied, other than the extinct Merriam's Elk.