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It is natural in current biology to perform phylogenetic classification based on molecular phylogeny. Before the early 2000s, classification was done by morphology, but since the latter half of the 2000s, classification of all organisms has been updated along the molecular phylogeny. Deer is no exception.


 * All molecular analyses have shown that Hydropotes is a sister taxon of Capreolus. “Hydropoteinae” is based on the outdated morphological classification, and current phylogenetical classification by molecular analysis completely deny this subfamily. (Pitra et al. 2004, Gilbert et al. 2006, Hassanin et al. 2012, Heckeberg et al. 2016, and Heckeberg 2020 )


 * Multiple molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown that Eld's deer is most closely related to Père David's deer not to Barasingha (Pitra et al. 2004, Gilbert et al. 2006, Hassanin et al. 2012, Heckeberg et al. 2016, Heckeberg 2020, Ghazanfarullah et al. 2021  and Kumar et al. 2021 ), and it is becoming mainstream to use Panolia instead of Rucervus for Eld's deer. (Pitra et al. 2004, Turvey et al 2017, Samejima & Matsuoka 2020, and Croitor 2021 )


 * The topology of molecular phylogenetic trees of Cervidae studied so far is almost consistent. Especially, the following five phylogenetic groups have been stably detected in almost all molecular phylogenetic analyses. (Pitra et al. 2004, Gilbert et al. 2006, Hassanin et al. 2012, Heckeberg et al. 2016, and Heckeberg 2020. )


 * Muntiacus, Elaphodus
 * Axis, Rucervus, Dama, Elaphurus, Panolia, Rusa, Cervus
 * Alces
 * Capreolus, Hydropotes
 * Rangifer, Mazama, Odocoileus, Blastocerus, Ozotoceros, Hippocamelus, Pudu


 * There are many sources labelling each clade as follows. (Gilbert et al. 2006 and Samejima & Matsuoka 2020 are typical.)
 * 1 for “Muntiacini”
 * 2 for “Cervini”
 * 3 for “Alceini”
 * 4 for “Caprolini”
 * 5 for “Odocoileini”