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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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SUBSPECIES pardus

SUBSPECIES delacouri

SUBSPECIES fusca

SUBSPECIES japonensis

SUBSPECIES kotiya

SUBSPECIES melas

SUBSPECIES nimr

SUBSPECIES orientalis

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