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Cervidae

family of ruminants (Ruminantia)
Class type of: Placentalia, deer Q23390

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
Placentalia, deer
Has use
deer[8]
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Pauly–Wissowa[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]
Invasive to
Australian continent
Main food source
Poaceae, Carex, forb, shrub, tree, lichen, shoot, leaf, twig, fungi[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon
Cervoidea, Artiodactyla[5][6]
Taxon common name
hjortefamilien[40]
Taxon name
Cervidae[7]
Taxon rank
family[4]
Temporal range start
Oligocene[9]
This taxon is source of
antler, buff leather, venison, deer liver, deer suet, deer fat[34][35][36][37][38][39]
Topic has template
Wikidata item[33]
🏷️ Also known as
en deer family en Cervidae en deer en raghorn en true deer en cervids ar الأيليات ar أيل ar ايل ar أيليات ar الأيول cs jelenovití cs Cervidae da Cervidae da hjortefamilien da hjorte da hjort de Hindin de Cerviden de Geweihträger
🔖 Identifiers · 88
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85022182
GND ID
4159953-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Huemul.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Cervidae
Anarâš aavis topic ID
sorvaelleeh
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
729
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300250308
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Cervidae
BBC News topic ID
c9mjedpr3dzt
BBC Things ID
dbb5134c-a29f-4193-90a3-b7d2777db94b
BNCF Thesaurus ID
37189
BOLD Systems taxon ID
1473
Show all 88 identifiers +76
BabelNet ID
00017393n
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
হরিণ
Belgian Species List ID
57334
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119580553
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item, Wikidata item, Michael Robertson
Catalogue of Life ID
7XR
Dewey Decimal Classification
599.65, 636.294
Dyntaxa ID
2002172
EPPO Code
1CERVF
Elhuyar ZTH ID
032121
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0025762
Encyclopedia of Life ID
7685
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/deer
EuroVoc ID
6918
FactGrid item ID
Aimé Vaschy
Fauna Europaea ID
12647
Fauna Europaea New ID
11775a0c-f5d4-4992-ad19-8f6342a3b8ca
Fossiilid.info ID
668
Fossilworks taxon ID
42652
Freebase ID
/m/09kx5
GBIF taxon ID
5298
Georgian Encyclopedia ID
18495
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cervol
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0168304
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
hjortedyr
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2684720
Harper's tag
deer
INaturalist taxon ID
42158
IRMNG ID
115925
ITIS TSN
180693
Iconclass notation
25F24(DEER)
Interlingual Index ID
i48405
KBpedia ID
Deer
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/biologiya/OLENEVIE.html
Lex ID
hjorte, hjorte_-_arter
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj2021055048
Library of Congress Classification
QL737.U55, SF997.5.C46
MSW ID
14200205
Maine: An Encyclopedia ID
deer
MeSH descriptor ID
D003670
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.649.313.500.380.373
Museum-digital tag ID
5405, 5408
NALT ID
6088
NBIC scientific name ID
48100
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0000376180
NCBI taxonomy ID
9850
NE.se ID
cervidae
NL CR AUT ID
ph121339
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/7F0ADE67-1AD1-4346-ABEA-D4D162CA6ACD, term/13FFBEE9-268E-4219-9BBB-72D191376994
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007284956805171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
139084
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
e453e55e-9524-44ed-8988-416d0ff88311
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3917577
Open Tree of Life ID
460505
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrte3arlcUhzY, pcrtBWawwFyKfi
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
42652
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
シカ
Postimees topic ID
713782
Quora topic ID
Deer
SVKKL authority ID
h0001890-jelenoviti
Salzburgwiki ID
196287
TaiCOL ID (new version)
t0005573
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID
DE004
Topic's main category
Category:Deer
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
9592
UMLS CUI
C0011133
VerbaAlpina ID
C2909
Vikidia article ID
it:Cervo, fr:Cervidé
Wellcome Collection concept ID
djxkzkak
WikiKids ID
Hertachtigen
WoRMS-ID for taxa
993628
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02432691-n, 02433983-n, 02433205-n
YSA ID
Y101646
YSO ID
12133
Yale LUX ID
concept/62568a30-a1c5-4a0d-baab-371dea940836
Yle topic ID
18-211733
🔗 Connections
Main food source 10
tree, fungi, leaf, Poaceae, shrub, lichen, Carex, shoot +2 more
← Parent taxon 9
Cervinae, Capreolinae, Dicrocerus, Candiacervus, Muntiacinae, Heteroprox, Croizetoceros, Euprox +1 more
Described by source 7
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Named after 4
Kagoshima, Kashima, Éditions du Cerf, Menjangan Kecil Island
← Depicts 4
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, The Wounded Deer, Corbridge Lion, deer
← Has natural reservoir 4
anthrax, fasciolosis, ehrlichiosis, dicrocoeliasis
← Main food source 3
grey wolf, Malayan tiger, Canis lupus baileyi
Parent taxon 2
Artiodactyla, Cervoidea
Subtypes 2
Rangifer tarandus, mule deer
← Iconographic symbol 2
Cernunnos, Jurōjin
← Natural product of taxon 2
antlers, venison
← Official symbol 2
Miyagi Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture
Instance of 1
taxon
Invasive to 1
Australian continent
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Subclass of 1
Placentalia
Taxon rank 1
family
This taxon is source of 1
venison
Topic's main category 1
Category:Deer
← Category combines topics 1
Category:en:Cervids
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Deer
← Has goal 1
deer hunting
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Summary

Cervidae is a taxon[1]. Cervidae is a type of Placentalia[2] and deer[3].

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Discovery and Description

Things named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[41], a core city of Japan[42], in Japan[43], founded in 1889[44]; Kashima[45], a city of Japan[46], in Japan[47], founded in 1889[48]; Éditions du Cerf[49], a publishing house[50], in France[51], founded in 1929[52], headquartered in Paris[53]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[54], an islet[55], in Indonesia[56].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Cervidae include Kagoshima[41], a core city of Japan[42], in Japan[43], founded in 1889[44]; Kashima[45], a city of Japan[46], in Japan[47], founded in 1889[48]; Éditions du Cerf[49], a publishing house[50], in France[51], founded in 1929[52], headquartered in Paris[53]; and Menjangan Kecil Island[54], an islet[55], in Indonesia[56].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2h ago · BeckNoDa · 2026-11-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Postimees topic ID → 713782
    Yle topic ID → 18-211733
    YSA ID → Y101646
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetdescription-add:1|th */ วงศ์ของสัตว์เคี้ยวเอื้อง"
  2. 18d ago · Yupik · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anarâš aavis topic ID → sorvaelleeh
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'av', 'avk',
    Sitelink count → 170
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Anarâš aavis topic ID: sorvaelleeh"
  3. 11w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Salzburgwiki ID → 196287
    VerbaAlpina ID → C2909
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: C2909, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Wikidata item, Wikidata item, Michael Robertson
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-add:1||3 */ Biblissima authority ID, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → deer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: deer, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289919149|deer (#289919149)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  6. 20w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0001890-jelenoviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0001890-jelenoviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  7. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main food source → Poaceae, Carex, forb +7
    This taxon is source of → antler, buff leather, venison +3
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has use → deer
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 12133, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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