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Vol. 62, 2023
(update: 2023.7.12)
Assessing the taxonomic status
of the GrayBrocket Mazama
simplicicornis argentina
Lönnberg, 1919 (Artiodactyla: Cervidae)
Eluzai Dinai Pinto Sandoval1 ,
Gabrielle Queiroz Vacari1, Juan Pablo Juliá2, Susana González3, Miluse Vozdova4, Halina Cernohorska4, Svatava Kubickova4, Daniela C. Kalthoff5, and José Mauricio Barbanti Duarte1,*
doi:10.6620/ZS.2023.62-30
1Núcleo
de Pesquisa e Conservaçăo de Cervídeos (NUPECCE), Faculdade de Cięncias
Agrárias e Veterinárias da Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP),
Jaboticabal-SP, Brazil. *Correspondence: E-mail:
mauricio.barbanti@unesp.br (Duarte)
E-mail: eluzaidinai@gmail.com (Sandoval); gabrielle_g12@hotmail.com
(Vacari)
2Facultad de Ciencias Naturales. Universidad Nacional
de Tucumán, Argentina. E-mail: jupaju@yahoo.es (Juliá)
3Departamento
de Biodiversidad y Genética, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas
Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay. E-mail: sugonza9@yahoo.com
(González)
4Veterinary Research Institute, Brno,
Czech Republic. E-mail: miluse.vozdova@vri.cz (Vozdova);
halina.cernohorska@vri.cz (Cernohorska); svatava.kubickova@vri.cz
(Kubickova)
5Swedish Museum of Natural History, Frescativägen 40,
Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: daniela.kalthoff@nrm.se (Kalthoff)
(Received 27 October 2022 / Accepted
28 April 2023 / Published 12 July 2023)
Communicated by Jian-Nan Liu
Mazama simplicicornis argentina is
the name that was given to describe a gray brocket collected by Lönberg
in 1919 in the central Chaco region of Argentina. Subsequent authors,
based on morphological similarities, considered this name to be a
synonym for the species Subulo
gouazoubira Fischer, 1814 from Paraguay. In the absence of
genetic analyses to compare the Argentinian and Paraguayan gray
brockets,
we aimed to clarify the taxonomy of M.
simplicicornis argentina through an integrative assessment using
morphological, cytogenetical, and molecular data from its holotype and
a current topotype. Qualitative skull features and cranio-morphometric
results of M. simplicicornis
argentina showed a great similarity with the S. gouazoubira neotype characters.
The diploid chromosome number of M.
simplicicornis argentina topotype corresponded with the
karyotypical pattern of S.
gouazoubira with 2n = 70 and FN = 70, showing a great similarity
in all classic and molecular cytogenetic results and revealing the
homologies between karyotypes. The phylogenetic analysis of
mitochondrial genes used in this study (concatenated partial ND5 and Cytb gene) allocated the M. simplicicornis argentina
specimens in the monophyletic clade of
S. gouazoubira with a
branch value of 100%. These results show that there is no discontinuity
between the Argentinian and Paraguayan gray brockets. Therefore, the
individuals originally described as
M. simplicicornis argentina
should be recognized as S.
gouazoubira.
Key words: Animal cytogenetic,
Cervidae, Gray brocket, Mitochondrial DNA, Morphology
Citation:
Sandoval EDP, Vacari GQ, Juliá JP, González S, Vozdova M, Cernohorska
M, Kubickova S, Kalthoff DC, Duarte JMB. 2023. Assessing the taxonomic
status of the gray brocket Mazama
simplicicornis
argentina Lönnberg, 1919 (Artiodactyla: Cervidae). Zool Stud 62:30. doi:10.6620/ZS.2023.62-30.
Supplementary
materials: Fig. S1丨Table S1丨Table S2丨Table S3丨Table S4
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