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--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
--> GENUS Lynx
SPECIES Lynx lynx
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 43. | | Common Name: | Eurasian Lynx | | Type Locality: | "Europe sylvis and desertis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911a:136) to "Wennersborg, S. Sweden". | | Distribution: | Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (?), China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq (?), Italy, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Serbia and Montenegro. Recently extinct in Bulgaria. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Near Threatened. | | Comments: | Does not include L. canadensis or L. pardinus, following Pocock (1917a), Hemmer (1978), Matyushkin (1979), García-Perea (1992), Werdelin (1981), Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000). Includes isabellinus (Gao, 1987). Reviewed in part by Tumlison (1987) as Felis lynx. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Tumlison (1987). |
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