The Species Black List
Pudu mephistophiles
northern pudú
The northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles), the world's smallest deer, occupies a discontinuous and probably fragmented range in the montane forests and high-elevation grasslands of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, where it is threatened mainly by habitat destruction.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 1, no restriction stated
- Class
- Mammalia
- Realm
- Neotropical
- Locality
- not specified in the source
- As IUCN records it
- Pudu mephistophiles (de Winton, 1896)