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Chinese Water Deer

Hydropotes inermis

941Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
15Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan96
Feb88
Mar77
Apr125
May103
Jun50
Jul41
Aug41
Sep47
Oct36
Nov90
Dec121

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England517
2Norfolk England101
3Suffolk England96
4Peterborough England53
5Oxfordshire England13
6Bedford England5
7Northamptonshire England3
8Milton Keynes England3
9Essex England2
10Lincolnshire England2
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland2
12Surrey England1
13Somerset England1
14Nottinghamshire England1
15Nottingham England1
865 England2 Scotland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 15 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
941
Peak month
April
Counties with records
15
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Hydropotes inermis
Group
Mammals
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,115
Conservation designations
Bern Convention, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Global Red List (JNCC)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Family
Cervidae
Genus
Hydropotes
Name with authority
Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe, 1870
Described
1870
Contributing datasets
8

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q192573 · GBIF 2440931