MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SYSTEMATIC STATUS OF SIBERIAN ROE DEER (CAPREOLUS PYGARGUS PALL., 1771) IN YAKUTIA

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  • A.V. Argunov Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone SB RAS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33910/1999-4079-2013-5-2-208-212

Keywords:

Siberian roe deer, population, males, females, Siberian subspecies, Tien Shan subspecies

Abstract

Morphological parameters and systematic status of Siberian roe deer from Yakutia are considered. This species spread to Yakutia in the 20th century from the neighbouring territories of the Russian Far East and South Siberia; as a result the Central Yakutia roe deer population seems to be a mixed form between the Tien Shan and Siberian subspecies. This reveals in its karyotypic characteristics, and also in morphological and craniometric measurements, making the roe deers from this northern region rather small in contrary to the Berghmann’s principle. By many craniometric parameters Central Yakutian roe deer resembles the Altai animals which also inhabit an area of overlapping ranges of the two subspecies.

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2013-06-27

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2013)

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