Fallow deer
| Fallow deer Temporal range: | |
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| European fallow deer (D. dama) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Tribe: | Cervini |
| Genus: | Dama Frisch, 1775 |
| Type species | |
| Cervus dama Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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For other extinct species, see text | |
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Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae. There are two living species, the European fallow deer (Dama dama), native to Europe and Anatolia, and the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica), native to the Middle East. The European species has been widely introduced elsewhere.