In biological classification , a subfamily ( Latin : subfamilia , plural subfamiliae ) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank , next below family but more inclusive than genus . Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zoological subfamily names with "-inae".
4-552: For extinct genera, see text The Cervinae or the Old World deer , are a subfamily of deer . Alternatively, they are known as the plesiometacarpal deer , due to having lost the parts of the second and fifth metacarpal bones closest to the foot (though retaining the parts away from the foot), distinct from the telemetacarpal deer of the Capreolinae (which have instead retained these parts of those metacarpals, while losing
8-704: Is suggested to have split from Capreolinae at least 13.8 million years ago based on the first appearance of Euprox, suggested to be a stem-group cervine in Europe at this time. Modern Cervinae first appeared during the Late Miocene in Eastern Asia, arriving in the Indian subcontinent and Europe during the Early Pilocene. The ancestor of Cervinae probably had a bifurcated antlers similar to muntjacs, with
12-483: The complex antlers of Cervini evolving independently from those of Capreolinae. Cervinae radiated during the Early Pleistocene, becoming the dominant group of deer across Eurasia. Subfamily Detarioideae is an example of a botanical subfamily. Detarioideae is a subdivision of the family Fabaceae (legumes), containing 84 genera. Stevardiinae is an example of a zoological subfamily. Stevardiinae
16-1235: The parts away from the foot instead). The following species are recognised in extant genera: The taxonomy of Cervini is poorly resolved due to conflict between nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies: Mitchondrial DNA phylogeny after Heckeberg (2020) Capreolinae Elaphodus (tufted deer) Muntiacus (muntjacs) Rucervus (Schomburgk's deer and barasingha) Axis (chital, hog deer) Dama (Fallow deer) † Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk) Elaphurus (Père David's deer) Panolia/Rucervus eldii (Eld's deer) Rusa alfredi (Visayan spotted deer) Rusa marianna (Philippine deer) Rusa timorensis (Javan rusa) Rusa unicolor (Sambar deer) Cervus (red deer, elk, sika deer) Nuclear DNA phylogeny after Heckeberg (2020) Capreolinae Elaphodus (tufted deer) Muntiacus (muntjacs) Dama (Fallow deer) Elaphurus (Père David's deer) Cervus elaphus (red deer) Cervus nippon (sika deer) Cervus albirostris (Thorold's deer) Rusa unicolor (Sambar deer) Rusa timorensis (Javan rusa) Panolia/Rucervus eldii (Eld's deer) Rucervus duvaucelii (barasingha) Axis (chital, hog deer) Cervinae
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