Water deer
| Water deer | |
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| Male water deer at the Whipsnade Zoo | |
| Female and fawn at Hickling, Norfolk | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
| Tribe: | Capreolini |
| Genus: | Hydropotes R. Swinhoe, 1870 |
| Species: | H. inermis
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| Binomial name | |
| Hydropotes inermis (R. Swinhoe, 1870)
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| Range of water deer | |
The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is a small deer species native to Korea and China. It has prominent tusks, similar to those of musk deer. It was first described to the Western world by Robert Swinhoe in 1870.