Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Mammalia > Order: Artiodactyla > Family: Cervidae > Genus: Dama > Species: Dama dama

Fallow deer - Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758)

Saxifraga-Piet Munsterman

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe	Least Concern (IUCN)
Protected by	3 international agreements
Most preferred habitats	grassland heathland and shrub woodland and forest
May also occur in	agricultural mosaics cropland wetlands

Distribution

Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Least Concern

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

Sources:

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Legal status

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Annex III: protected fauna species		http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cul.../bern/default_en.asp
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)	Annex I: species threatened with extinction which are or may be affected by trade. Trade in specimens of these species must be subject to particularly strict regulation in order not to endanger further their survival and must only be authorized in exceptional circumstances.	Protected at the subspecies level only	http://www.cites.org/eng
	Annex I: species threatened with extinction which are or may be affected by trade. Trade in specimens of these species must be subject to particularly strict regulation in order not to endanger further their survival and must only be authorized in exceptional circumstances.	Synonym for this species is listed in CITES. See there for more details.

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Alageyik	Turkish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Daamhirv	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dådyr	Danish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dádýr	Icelandic	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dåhjort	Norwegian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Daim européen	French	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Daino	Italian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dambriedis	Latvian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Damhert	Dutch	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Damhirsch	German	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Damhirsch	Luxemburgish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Damjak	Slovenian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dámszarvas	Hungarian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Daniel	Polish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Daniel škvrnitý	Slovak	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Danielius	Lithuanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dovhjort	Swedish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Dreri lobator	Albanian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Fallow deer	English	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Gamo	Portuguese	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Gamo	Spanish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Jelen lopatar	Croatian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kabehirv	Estonian	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.
Kuusipeura	Finnish	Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & al.

Synonym	Author
Cervus dama	Linnaeus, 1758
Cervus platyceros	Cuvier, 1798
Cervus mauricus	Cuvier, 1816
Cervus leucaethiops	Fischer, 1829
Cervus maura	Fischer, 1829
Dama vulgaris	Gray, 1843
Platyceros plinii	Zimmermann, 1780

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
NOBANIS: Dama dama	European Network on Invasive Alien Species
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

External data

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