Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Artiodactyla > Family: Cervidae > Genus: Odocoileus > Species: Odocoileus virginianus

White-tailed deer - Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780)

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Not evaluated (IUCN)
Protected by	1 international agreement
Most preferred habitats	woodland and forest
May also occur in	cropland grassland heathland and shrub

Distribution

Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Not evaluated

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Legal status

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)	CITES Appendix III valid from 24 June 2010	Protected at the subspecies level only	http://www.cites.org/eng

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
White-tailed deer	English	Tony Mitchell-Jones

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NOBANIS: Odocoileus virginianus	European Network on Invasive Alien Species
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

No external data sets available for this species

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