Kansu red deer

{{Short description|Subspecies of deer}}

{{Subspeciesbox

| genus = Cervus

| species = canadensis

| species_link = Elk

| subspecies = kansuensis

| authority = (Pocock, 1912)

}}

The Kansu red deer (Cervus canadensis kansuensis) is a subspecies of wapiti found in the Gansu province of China. This subspecies forms, along with the closely related Sichuan deer, and Tibetan red deer, the southernmost wapiti group.{{cite journal

|last=Ludt

|first=Christian J.

|author2=Wolf Schroeder

|author3=Oswald Rottmann

|author4=Ralph Kuehn

|title=Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus)

|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=31 |year=2004 |issue=3

|pages=1064–1083

|publisher=Elsevier

|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.003

|pmid=15120401

|bibcode=2004MolPE..31.1064L

|url=http://www.wzw.tum.de/wildbio/paper/cerphyl.pdf#search=%22Barbary%20red%20deer%22

|format=PDF

|accessdate=2007-06-04

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620034701/http://www.wzw.tum.de/wildbio/paper/cerphyl.pdf#search="Barbary

|archivedate=2007-06-20

|url-status=dead

}}