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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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SUBSPECIES onca

SUBSPECIES arizonensis

SUBSPECIES centralis

SUBSPECIES goldmani

SUBSPECIES hernandesii

SUBSPECIES palustris

SUBSPECIES paraguensis

SUBSPECIES peruviana

SUBSPECIES veraecruscis

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