Alceini

Alceini
Alces alces
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
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Genera

Alceini is a tribe of deer, containing the extant genus Alces and the extinct genera Cervalces and Libralces. The only extant species in this tribe is the moose.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. ^ Breda, M., Marchetti, M., 2005. Systematical and biochronological review of Plio-Pleistocene Alceini (Cervidae; Mammalia) from Eurasia. Quaternary Sci. Rev. 24, 775–805.
  2. ^ Heintz, E., Poplin, F., 1981. Alces carnutorum (Laugel, 1862) du Pleistocene de Saint-Prest (France). Systematique et evolution des Alcines (Cervidae, Mammalia). Quartarpalaontologie 4, 105–122.
  3. ^ Kahlke, H.D., 1990. On the evolution, distribution and taxonomy of fossil Elk/Moose. Quartarpalaontologie 8, 83–106.


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