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--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
GENUS Lynx
Author: | Kerr, 1792. | Citation: | In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1: 155. | Type Species: | Felis lynx Linnaeus, 1758, by absolute tautonymy (Melville and Smith, 1987). | Comments: | Revised by Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981), and García-Perea (1992), who recognized the generic status of Lynx. Groves (1982a), Hemmer (1978), and McKenna and Bell (1997) considered Lynx a subgenus of Felis. |
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