| the taxonomic status of mazama bricenii and the significance of the táchira depression for mammalian endemism in the cordillera de mérida, venezuela. | we studied the taxonomy and biogeography of mazama bricenii, a brocket deer classified as vulnerable by the iucn, drawing on qualitative and quantitative morphology and sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene. we used ecological niche modeling (enm) to evaluate the hypothesis that m. bricenii of the venezuelan cordillera de mérida (cm) might have become isolated from populations of its putative sister species, mazama rufina, in the colombian cordillera oriental (co). this hypothesis ass ... | 2015 | 26121688 |