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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Pantherinae
--> GENUS Panthera
SPECIES Panthera pardus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 41. | | Common Name: | Leopard | | Type Locality: | "Indiis", fixed by Thomas (1911a:135), as "Egypt"; see discussion by Pocock (1930). | | Distribution: | Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Armenia, Botswana, Burma, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Dem. Rep. Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia (Java), Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North and South Korea, Pakistan, Republic of Congo, Russia, Saudia Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered (except in Africa, in the wild, south of, and including Gabon, Republic of Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Uganda, and Kenya, where this species is Threatened). IUCN – Critically Endangered as P. p. nimr, P. p. orientalis, P. p. panthera, and P. p. tulliana, Endangered as P. p. japonensis, P. p. kotiya, P. p. melas, and P. p. saxicolor, otherwise Least Concern. | | Comments: | Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1930a, b), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982c), and Groves (1982a). Revised by Pocock (1930a, b, 1932c) and Miththapala et al. (1996). Synonyms allocated according to Miththapala et al. (1996). |
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