Kingdom Animalia (animals) Eumetazoa (metazoans) Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) Deuterostomia (deuterostomes) Phylum Chordata (chordates) Craniata (craniates) Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates) Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates) Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates) Tetrapoda (tetrapods) Amniota (amniotes) Synapsida (synapsids) Class Mammalia (mammals) Subclass Theria (Therian mammals) Infraclass Eutheria (placental mammals) Superorder Cetartiodactyla (cetaceans and artiodactyls) Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) Family Cervidae (deer) Subfamily Cervinae (elk, muntjacs, and tufted deer) Genus Dama (fallow deer) Species Dama dama (fallow deer)