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GENUS Puma

Author:Jardine, 1834.
Citation:Natur. Libr.: 266-267.
Type Species:Felis concolor Linnaeus, 1771, by original designation.
Comments:Placed as a subgenus in Felis by McKenna and Bell (1997) who separated yagouaroundi into Felis (Herpailurus). Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered concolor and yagouaroundi monophyletic, with Acinonyx as the sister group.
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SPECIES concolor

SUBSPECIES concolor

SUBSPECIES anthonyi

SUBSPECIES cabrerae

SUBSPECIES costaricensis

SUBSPECIES couguar

SUBSPECIES puma

SPECIES yagouaroundi

SUBSPECIES yagouaroundi

SUBSPECIES ameghinoi

SUBSPECIES cacomitli

SUBSPECIES eyra

SUBSPECIES fossata

SUBSPECIES melantho

SUBSPECIES panamensis

SUBSPECIES tolteca

Synonyms:

    Herpailurus Severtzov, 1858

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