<Li> Dama virginiana Zimmermann, 1780 </Li> <Li> Dama virginianus Zimmermann, 1780 </Li> <P> The white - tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium - sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia . It has also been introduced to New Zealand, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, and some countries in Europe, such as Finland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Serbia . In the Americas, it is the most widely distributed wild ungulate . </P> <P> In North America, the species is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains, but elsewhere, it is mostly replaced by the black - tailed or mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). In western North America, it is found in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from South Dakota and Wyoming to northeastern British Columbia, including the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands . </P>

Is the white tailed deer an invasive species