South China sika deer
| South China sika deer | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Cervinae |
| Genus: | Cervus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. n. kopschi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Cervus nippon kopschi Swinhoe, 1873
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The South China sika deer (Cervus nippon kopschi) is one of many subspecies of
Yangtze River Basin all the way east to the coast, going as far south as the border with Vietnam. Today its small population of 300 is widely scattered along its former range, in remote mountains isolated by heavily populated lowlands. About 30 exists in the Tianmu Mountains in northern Zhejiang, 70 to 100 in southern Anhui, and 150 in northern Jiangxi. The population size in southern Guangxi is unknown, and a tiny population might exist in northern Guangdong as well.[1]
The population continues to decline due to poaching, and inbreeding is a matter of concern for the quality of its future population.
References
- ^ ""Factsheet: Sika Deer"". Archived from the original on 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
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