Cervus schomburgki

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	ARTIODACTYLA
Family:	CERVIDAE
Scientific Name:	Cervus schomburgki
Species Authority:	Blyth, 1863
Common Name/s:	SCHOMBURGK'S DEER (Eng)
Taxonomic Notes:	This taxon has been placed in the subgenus Rucervus and some authors have raised this to genus level. Molecular evidence appears to provide good support for this change.

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Justification:

The wild population of Schomburgk’s deer is thought to have died out around 1932, with the last captive individual being killed in 1938. MacPhee and Flemming (1999) consider this species to be still extant. The matter has been referred to the relevant Specialist Group for a decision.

History:

1994

Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	Cervus schomburgki was endemic to Thailand.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Thailand

Population

Population:

The species is thought to have become extinct when the last captive individual was killed in 1938.

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:	The species inhabited swampy plains with long grass, cane, and shrubs. The species avoided dense vegetation.
System:	Terrestrial

Threats

Threats:

Commercial production of rice for export began in the late nineteenth century in Thailand leading to the loss of nearly all grassland and swamp areas this deer depended on. Intensive hunting pressure at the turn of the century restricted the species further and the last wild individuals are thought to have died around 1932.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Deer Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.

MacPhee, R.D.E. and Flemming, C. 1999. Requiem Æternam. The last five hundred years of mammalian species extinctions. In: R.D.E. MacPhee (ed.) Extinctions in Near Time, pp.333-371. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Cervus schomburgki. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 July 2008.
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