Deer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Cervidae
Subfamily:	Capreolinae
Genus:	Odocoileus Rafinesque, 1832
Species
Odocoileus hemionus Odocoileus virginianus

Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer that contains two species.

• Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is indigenous to the western half of North America.
• Black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) is a subspecies of the mule deer native to British Columbia, Canada and Alaska.
• White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru.

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