Order Artiodactyla Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 315 343 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352976 d2154b0a-e0b7-4b56-bb6c-61d84ce4d9e1 0-89327-235-3 7352976 Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838 . Coup d'oeil sur la faune des iles de la Sonde et de L'empire du Japon , p. 22 . TYPE LOCALITY: Japan . DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan ; E. China ; Manchuria; Korea ; adjacent E. Siberia; Japan ; Quelpart Isis; Ryukyu Isis., Tsushima Isis. ( Japan ); Vietnam . COMMENT: Includes hortulorum, taiouanus and pulchellus, which were considered species by Imaizumi, 1970, Bull. Sci. Mus . Tokyo , 13: 185-194. Reviewed by Feldhamer, 1980 , Mamm. Species, 128:1-7. PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. n. grassianus subspecies only. U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. n. keramae subspecies only. U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. n. kopschi subspecies only. U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. n. mandarinus subspecies only. U.S. ESA - Endangered as C. n. taiouanus subspecies only. ISIS NUMBER: 5301419006004009001.