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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
--> GENUS Puma
SPECIES Puma concolor
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1771. | | Citation: | Mantissa Plantarum, 2: 266. | | Common Name: | Cougar | | Type Locality: | "Brassilia", restricted by Goldman (In Young and Goldman, 1946:200) to "Cayenne region, French Guiana". | | Distribution: | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I as F. c. coryi, F. c. costaricensis, and F. c. couguar; otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as F. c. coryi, F. c. costaricensis, and F. c. couguar; U.S. ESA – Similarity of Appearance to a Threatened Taxa (Florida); IUCN – Critically Endangered as P. c. couguar and P. c. coryi, otherwise Near Threatened. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Currier (1983) as Felis concolor. Placed in Puma by Pocock (1917a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982c). Synonyms allocated according to Culver et al. (2000). |
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