Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla - (Family) Moschidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Bovoidea (Clade) Simpson 1931 [Sánchez, Domingo & Morales 2010]		Ref: I.M. Sánchez et al., 2010: 1040.
Moschidae (Clade) Gray 1821 [Sánchez, Domingo & Morales 2010]		Ref: I.M. Sánchez et al., 2010: 1039.

Original position

Pecora (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Moschinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821

Original entries

Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Moschidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Ref: P. Grubb, 2005: 651.

Alternative positions

Moschidae (Clade) Gray 1821 [Sánchez, Domingo & Morales 2010]	Ref: I.M. Sánchez et al., 2010: 1039.
Moschinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 422.
Pecora (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 91.

Historical positions

Moschidae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: P. Grubb, 2005: 651.
Moschinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 422.
Moschidae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: P. Grubb, 1993: 383.
Moschidae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 127.
Moschinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1060.
Pecora (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 27, 91.
Pecora (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 19, 66.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	7s;11ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 30 Apr 2021	[7s;11ss]
2005	P. Grubb: 652	[7s;11ss]
1993	P. Grubb	[4s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[5s]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	1s
1758	C. Linnaeus	[1s]