Whitetail Deer Taxonomy

The link below indicates that the Whitetail Deer belongs to:
Kingdom -- Animalia
Phylum -- Chordata
Class -- Mammalia
Order -- Artiodactyla
Family -- Cervidae
Genus -- Odocoileus
Species -- virginianus

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/parr_jaco/taxonomy.htm
A later post will list the characteristics that place the whitetail deer into these classifications.

Whitetail Deer

Pictured here is the whitetail deer. This organism belongs to the Animal Kingdom, it is in the Phylum Chordata and is in the Class Mammalia.

This photograph was taken by a digital trail camera on my father's farm in Clinton, Arkansas.

I will post taxonomy information when I find a reliable source for it.