Endangered
Dwarf musk deer
Moschus berezovskii
The dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Dwarf musk deer, Chinese: 林麝.
The mammal
Dwarf musk deer is a mammal in the family Moschidae (order Artiodactyla) — Moschus berezovskii.
Range and habitat
The dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Dwarf musk deer, Chinese: 林麝. Pinyin: Lín shè) is an artiodactyl native to southern and central China and northernmost Vietnam.
Habitat labels include forest.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
On June 14, 1976, China entered the dwarf musk deer onto its endangered species list.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Dwarf musk deer is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Dwarf musk deer, Wikidata item Q277469. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
