Mérida brocket

{{Short description|Species of deer}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Mérida brocket{{MSW3 Artiodactyla | page = 656 | id=14200245}}

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Lizcano, D.J. |author2=Alvarez, S.J. |date=2016 |title=Mazama bricenii |volume=2016 |page=e.T136301A22165039 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T136301A22165039.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Mazama

| species = bricenii

| authority = (Thomas, 1908)

| range_map = Mazama bricenii distribution.png

}}

The Mérida brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Meroia brocket or rufous brocket,{{cite web |url=http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Mazama_bricenii/ |title=Mazama bricenii |access-date=10 October 2010 |publisher=BayScience Foundation, Inc. |work=ZipcodeZoo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826131340/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Mazama_bricenii/ |archive-date=26 August 2012 }} is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of {{convert|1000|-|3500|m|ft}} in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela. It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar little red brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987, though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.Nowak, R. M. (eds) (1999). Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.