HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
--> GENUS Lynx
SPECIES Lynx pardinus
Author: | Temminck, 1827. | Citation: | Monogr. Mamm., 1: 116. | Common Name: | Iberian Lynx | Type Locality: | "Portugal, puisque le commerce reçoit des peaux préparées de Lisbonne, et que M. le baron de Vionénil tua, en 1818, sur les bords du Tage, à dix lieues de Lisbonne". | Distribution: | Portugal, SW Spain. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered as Felis pardina; IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | Given specific status by Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981) and García-Perea (1992); however Weigel (1961) and Tumlison (1987) considered pardinus conspecific with L. lynx. |
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