Subfamily
Cervinae (Old world deer)
Cervus canadensis. Photo: (c) Theodore Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Cervinae or the Old World deer (denoting their place of origin, not their current distribution), are a subfamily of deer. Alternatively, they are known as the plesiometacarpal deer, due to their ankle structure being different from the telemetacarpal deer of the Capreolinae.
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