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Definition of Cervus giganteus

Cervus giganteus
Elk Elk, n. [Icel. elgr; akin to Sw. elg, AS. eolh, OHG. elaho, MHG. elch, cf. L. alces; perh. akin to E. eland.] (Zo["o]l.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler. Cape elk (Zo["o]l.), the eland.

Meaning of Cervus giganteus from wikipedia

- found that the Irish elk was nested within Cervus, and were inside the clade containing living red deer (Cervus elaphus). Based on this, the authors suggested...
- giganteus". Von Koenigswald reclassified "D. giganteus" in 1950 into its own genus, Indopithecus, but this was changed again in 1979 to "G. giganteus"...
- Richard Lydekker as Cervus algericus in 1890 from a maxilla with teeth found near Hammam Maskhoutine in Algeria. The species Cervus pachygenys was erected...
- Look up elk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The elk (Cervus canadensis) is a large antlered mammal within the deer family. Elk may also refer to: Eurasian...
- were named by pioneering Chinese paleontologist C. C. Young as species of Cervus in 1932 for material from Zhoukoudian. In a review of the paper the subsequent...
- in North America as the grizzly), red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Europe and the closely related elk (Cervus canadensis) in far eastern Siberia, American...
- regarded as members of the genus Cervus. Rucervus was originally proposed by Hodgson as a subgenus of the genus Cervus. The original definition of Rucervus...
- Johnson, who retained the specimen in his collection, named it Cervus latifrons, Cervus being the only genus of deer known at that time. The specific name...
- Subfamily: Cervinae Tribe: Cervini Genus: Dama Frisch, 1775 Type species Cervus dama Linnaeus, 1758 Species Dama dama Dama mesopotamica Synonyms Dactyloceros...
- relation is cervine; like the family name Cervidae, this is from Latin: cervus, meaning stag or deer. Deer live in a variety of biomes, ranging from tundra...