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--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Pantherinae
--> GENUS Panthera
SPECIES Panthera onca
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 42. | | Common Name: | Jaguar | | Type Locality: | "America meridionali", fixed by Thomas (1911a:136) as "Pernambuco" [Brazil]. | | Distribution: | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. Recently extinct in United States, El Salvador, and Uruguay. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Near Threatened. | | Comments: | Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981), Seymour (1989) and Cabrera (1957). Revised by Nelson and Goldman (1933a), Pocock (1939b), and Larson (1997). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1939b), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982c), and Groves (1982a). Reviewed by Seymour (1989). A multivariate analysis of skull morphology could not discriminate among subspecies (Larson, 1997). |
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