Kansu Red Deer | |
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Conservation status | |
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. kansuensis |
Trinomial name | |
Cervus canadensis kansuensis |
The Kansu Red Deer (Cervus canadensis kansuensis) is a subspecies of wapiti found in the Gansu province of China. This subspecies forms, along with the closely related Sichuan deer, and Tibetan red deer, the southernmost wapiti group [1].