''Rusa'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of deer from southern Asia. They have traditionally been included in '' Cervus'', and genetic evidence suggests this may be more appropriate than their present placement in a separate genus.Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004). ''Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer.'' Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 880–895. Three of the four species have relatively small distributions in the Philippines and Indonesia, but the sambar is more widespread, ranging from India east and north to China and south to the Greater Sundas. All are

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and hunting in their native ranges, but three of the species have also been introduced elsewhere.

Species

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q754038 Cervines Mammal genera Taxa named by Charles Hamilton Smith