Yucatan brown brocket

The Yucatan brown brocket (Odocoileus pandora) is a small species of deer native to Central America.

Yucatan brown brocket
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Genus:	Odocoileus
Species:	O. pandora
Binomial name
Odocoileus pandora (Merriam, 1901)
Synonyms
Mazama pandora Merriam, 1901

Taxonomy

It has been previously treated as a disjunct subspecies of the gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) or a subspecies of the red brocket (M. americana).^[2] In 2021, the American Society of Mammalogists placed it in the genus Odocoileus.^[3]

Description

Among other features, the Yucatan brown brocket differs from both the red brocket and the gray brocket in the shape and measurements of the skull and antlers.^[2] It also differs from the Central American red brocket (M. temama) which is locally sympatric with the Yucatan brown brocket, in its gray-brown, rather than overall reddish, color.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

O. pandora is found in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.^[4] While it is found in humid tropical forest like most other brocket deer, the Yucatan brown brocket also ranges across arid, relatively open habitats.^[2]

Odocoileus pandora