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  • Other species include muntjac Muntiacus muntjak, lesser mouse deer Tragulus javanicus, rusa deer Cervus timorensis and wild boar Sus scrofa.

    Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009

  • A subspecies of mouse deer, the Balabac chevrotain (Tragulus napu nigricans), which is confined to Balabac Island, is also considered endangered.

    Palawan rain forests 2008

  • There seems to be no special vertebrate fauna associated with limestone in this ecoregion, although banteng Bos javanicus, orangutan Pongo pygmaeus, Bornean gibbon Hylobates muelleri, sambar Cervus unicolor, muntjac Muntiacus muntjak, and mousedeer Tragulus spp. all use limestone outcroppings.

    Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

  • Tragulus kanchil, are common to Sumatra and Borneo, but do not extend into Java, where they are replaced by Tragulas javanicus.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Zum Verhalten des Kleinkantschils (Tragulus javanicus).

    Chapter 11 1991

  • Muscle weight distribution of the Malaysian lesser mousedeer (Tragulus javanicus).

    Chapter 11 1991

  • Mouse deer1 (Tragulus spp. and Hyemoschus aquaticus) are among the smallest ruminants known.

    26 Mouse Deer 1991

  • _Tragulus kauchil_ is another Malayan species yet smaller than the preceding; it may be found in Tenasserim.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • So also the great Malay deer (Rusa equina), and the small Tragulus kanchil, are common to Sumatra and Borneo, but do not extend into Java, where they are replaced by Tragulas javanicus.

    The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • As a result, sambar (Cervus unicolor), hog deer (Cervus porcinus), mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), tapir (Tapirus malayanus), and wild boar (Sus scrofa), prey species for many predators, are abundant in the reserved forests.

    Myanmar Coast mangroves 2008

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