| Alpine Musk Deer | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Moschidae |
| Genus: | Moschus |
| Species: | M. chrysogaster |
| Binomial name | |
| Moschus chrysogaster Hodgson, 1839 |
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The Alpine Musk Deer (Moschus chrysogaster) is a species of musk deer. It is occurs the highlands of central China, south and west to the Himalayas. Two subspecies are recognized:
Records from the Himalayan foothills are now considered a separate species, the Himalayan Musk Deer.