Norwegian red deer | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Cervinae |
Genus: | Cervus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | C. e. atlanticus
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Trinomial name | |
Cervus elaphus atlanticus Lönnberg, 1906
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The Norwegian red deer (Cervus elaphus atlanticus) is a small subspecies [1] of red deer native to Norway. The species has been farmed on a commercial basis since the 1980s.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cervus elaphus atlanticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ Rosef, O.; Fimreite, N.; Egeland, B. (2001). "Copper deficiency in Norwegian farmed red deer". Nor. Vet. Tidsskr. 113: 771–774.