Brigadier General James Monroe Williams

Elaphurus is a genus of deer. E.davidianus is the only extant species and several fossil species are described.

Species

As of 2019, the following living and fossil species were recognised:^[1]

Elaphurus Milne-Edwards, 1866.^[2]
- Elaphurus davidianus Milne-Edwards, 1866; Père David's deer
- †Elaphurus bifurcates Teilhard de Chardin et Piveteau, 1930.
  - †Elaphurus bifurcatus shikamai Otsuka, 1968
- †Elaphurus eleonorae Vislobokova, 1988.
- †Elaphurus chinnaniensis Chia et Wang, 1978.
- †Elaphurus formosanus Shikama, 1937.

^ Wei Dong, Qi Wei, Weipeng Bai, Limin Zhang, Wenhui Liu, Zheying Chen, Yongbing Bai, Yongchun Wu, New material of the Early Pleistocene Elaphurus (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from North China and discussion on taxonomy of Elaphurus, Quaternary International, Volume 519, 2019, Pages 113-121, ISSN 1040-6182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.015.
^ Milne-Edwards, Alphonse (1866). "Note sure le Mi-Lou ou Sseu-Pou-Siang". Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie. 5: 382. Retrieved 9 December 2023.