Axis axis | Red List of Bangladesh Volume 2: Mammals
Taxa
Axis axis | (Erxleben, 1777)
Publication
NRL Record ID
327582
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
Chital is listed as Least Concern because it occurs in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest when another population has been introduced in the man-made coastal magrove forest under Noakhali District. It has a stable and sizable population (>1,00,000) and existing threats are not severe. It does not fulfill any criteria to qualify threatened categories. Thus, it has been categorized as Least Concern.
Assessment year
2015
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
A.B.M. Sarowar Alam
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
NGO
Academic
Assessor affiliation specific
Academic|NGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN (2012) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp; IUCN (2012) Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://iucnredlistbd.org/
Endemic to region
No
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: No
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Not Threatened in Bangladesh (IUCN Bangladesh 2000).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Axis axis | Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Cervidae | Axis |