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SPECIES Acinonyx jubatus

Author:Schreber, 1775.
Citation:Die Säugethiere, 2(15): pl. 105[1775]; also see text 3(22):392 [1777].
Common Name:Cheetah
Type Locality:"südliche Afrika; man bekömmt die Felle vom Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung" [South Africa, Western Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope].
Distribution:Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Afghanistan, Burundi, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, Yemen.
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as A. j. venaticus, Endangered as A. j. hecki, otherwise Vulnerable.
Comments:Placed in Acinonyx by Pocock (1917b), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Král and Zima (1980), Kratochvíl (1982c), and Groves (1982a). Subspecies and their synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953).
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Offspring:

SUBSPECIES jubatus

SUBSPECIES hecki

SUBSPECIES raineyi

SUBSPECIES soemmeringii

SUBSPECIES velox

SUBSPECIES venaticus

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