[2] The Central Asian red deer's fur is light ginger in colour.

[8] In 2005, Peter Grubb also considered the proposed taxa as subspecies of the red deer.

[9] IUCN Red List assessors provisionally recognised its status as a distinct species in 2017.

[1] The Central Asian red deer is thought to comprise three subspecies: An analysis of mitochondrial DNA of 125 tissue samples from 50 populations of the genus Cervus included two samples from Tajikistan and three from western China.

[12] The first phylogenetic analysis using hair samples of the deer population in Dachigam National Park in Jammu and Kashmir was published in 2015.