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Meroia Brocket
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Artiodactyla;
Family:	Cervidae;
Genus:	Mazama;
Species:	M. bricenii;
Binomial name
	Mazama bricenii; (Thomas, 1908)

The Merida Brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Gray Dwarf Brocket, is a small species of deer. Ranging in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela, it has a limited distribution. It was once treated as a subspecies of the Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987.^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 656. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
^ Lizcano, D. J. & Alvarez, S. J. (2008). Mazama bricenii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.

[msw3-0] Grubb, Peter (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 656. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.

[iucn-1] Lizcano, D. J. & Alvarez, S. J. (2008). Mazama bricenii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 April 2009. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.

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