Hydropotinae

HydropotinaeTrouessart, 1898

Hyväksytty nimi, Maailman nisäkkäiden luettelo 2005

Affinities controversial; from cladistic analysis of skeletal characters, distanced from all other Cervidae by Gentry and Hooker (1988), making Cervidae paraphyletic if included; so perhaps to be placed in a different family; alternatively nested within Odocoileinae (= Capreolinae), close to Capreolus, by Randi et al. (1998), using mtDNA studies, and inferred to have lost antlers secondarily.

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.