Visayan spotted deer

Description

This species is endemic to the Western Visayan Islands (or Negros–Panay Faunal Region) of the central Philippines.Previously the species was found on Panay,Guimaras,Negros,Cebu,Masbate and probably Ticao Islands (Heaney et al.1998;Grubb 2005;Oliver 1993,1996).Presently,the species is restricted to the Mount Madja - Mount Baloy area of west Panay and a few scattered remnants of forest on Negros (Cox 1987,Oliver et al.1992).It was extirpated on Cebu in the mid-twentieth century.A few individuals were reported to survive on Masbate between 1991 and 1993,but the population there is almost certainly extinct or ‘functionally extinct’.This species is replaced by Rusa mariannus on Bohol and all other larger Philippine Islands east of Huxley’s Line (i.e.,excluding Palawan) (Grubb 2005;Oliver 1993,1996).