| Taxonomic Hierarchy 
        
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals |  |  |  | Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts |  |  |  | Infrakingdom | Deuterostomia |  |  |  | Phylum | Chordata 
 – cordés, cordado, chordates |  |  |  | Subphylum | Vertebrata 
 – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates |  |  |  | Infraphylum | Gnathostomata |  |  |  | Superclass | Tetrapoda |  |  |  | Class | Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758
 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals |  |  |  | Subclass | Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897 |  |  |  | Infraclass | Eutheria Gill, 1872 |  |  |  | Order | Artiodactyla Owen, 1848
 – artiodactyls, porco do mato, veado, cloven-hoofed ungulates, even-toed ungulates |  |  |  | Family | Cervidae Goldfuss, 1820
 – cervids, caribou, deer, moose, wapiti |  |  |  | Subfamily | Cervinae Goldfuss, 1820 |  |  |  | Genus | Cervus Linnaeus, 1758
 – red deer, deer, wapiti |  |  |  | Species | Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758
 – elk, wapiti, Ciervo común, wapiti or elk, wapiti, Red Deer (see comments) |  |  |  | Subspecies | Cervus elaphus yarkandensis Blanford, 1892 – Yarkand deer |  |  
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