Taxonomic Hierarchy 
      
        
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 |   | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals | 
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|   |    Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts | 
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|   |       Infrakingdom | Deuterostomia 
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|   |          Phylum | Chordata 
 – cordés, cordado, chordates | 
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|   |             Subphylum | Vertebrata 
 – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates | 
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|   |                Infraphylum | Gnathostomata 
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|   |                   Superclass | Tetrapoda 
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|   |                      Class | Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758
 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals | 
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|   |                         Subclass | Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
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|   |                            Infraclass | Eutheria Gill, 1872
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|   |                               Order | Artiodactyla Owen, 1848
 – artiodactyls, porco do mato, veado, cloven-hoofed ungulates, even-toed ungulates | 
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|   |                                  Family | Cervidae Goldfuss, 1820
 – cervids, caribou, deer, moose, wapiti | 
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|   |                                     Subfamily | Cervinae Goldfuss, 1820
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|   |                                        Genus | Cervus Linnaeus, 1758
 – red deer, deer, wapiti | 
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|   |                                           Species | Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838
 – Sika deer, Sika | 
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|   |                                              Subspecies | Cervus nippon sichuanicus Guo, Chen and Wang, 1978 | 
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