Gongshan muntjac
The Gongshan - Muntjac ( Muntiacus gongshanensis ) is a species of muntjac from the deer family. It occurs only in a small part of the Chinese Yunnan province and the bordering Myanmar.
Features
The head-body length of Gongshan - Muntjac is 95 to 105 centimeters, the tail length of 9-16 cm. The shoulder height is 55 to 57 centimeters. Individual weights of animals is 17-40 kg. The animals are medium sized with long, slender legs. They have a dark reddish-brown fur and an orange -brown coloration on the head. They correspond to the black muntjac ( Muntiacus crinifrons ), differ from the latter by the slightly lighter color, the smaller size and shorter tail and longer hooves. In addition, the approach of the antlers is short and thick and it has no striking tufts of hair. On the feet, this species has a white ring.
Skull characteristics
The skull has a total length of 190-205 millimeters. Like all muntjac has the kind in the maxilla per half a canine ( canine ), three Vorbackenzähne ( Praemolares ) and three molars ( Molar ), incisors are absent. In the mandible, it additionally has in each half three incisors. Overall, the animals thus have 34 teeth.
Genetic features
The genome of Gongshan - Muntjac consists of a very small number of chromosomes: The males have a diploid chromosome complement of 2n = 9 chromosomes, whereas it is in the females 2n = 8. For comparison, the Chinese muntjac 2n = 46 chromosomes.
Dissemination
The Gongshan - Muntjac is found only in a small part in the extreme northwest of Yunnan Province and the adjacent northern Myanmar.
Way of life
Over the life of the Gongshan - Muntjac are no data, but it is assumed that it corresponds to the other barking and especially the black muntjac.
System
The Gongshan - Muntjac is classified as a separate species within the muntjac ( genus Muntiacus ), which consists of eleven species. The first scientific description comes from Shilay Ma in 1990, who described the nature of the municipality in the district of Puladi Gongshan in Yunnan Province and named according to the origin. Within the species, no further addition to the nominate subspecies Muntiacus gongshanensis gongshanensis be distinguished.
About the taxonomic classification and species status uncertainty. So the Gongshan - Muntjac both the Chinese muntjac ( Muntiacus reevesi ), the Indian muntjac ( Muntiacus muntjac ) and the Tenasserim muntjac has already been assigned ( Muntiacus feae ). More recent studies provide a very close relationship established with the Black Muntjac ( Muntiacus crinifrons ) and assign Muntiacus gongshanensis a synonym of that kind to.
Threats and conservation
The species is not classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN ) due to the very uncertain data to its scheme and assignment and thus to the stocks in a category of threat but marked as " data deficient ".