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GENUS Acinonyx

Author:Brookes, 1828.
Citation:Cat. Anat. Zool. Mus. Joshua Brookes, London: 16, 33.
Type Species:Acinonyx venator Brookes, 1828 (= Felis jubata Schreber, 1775), by monotypy (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956a; Melville and Smith, 1987).
Comments:Wozencraft (1993) placed Acinonyx in the monophyletic subfamily Acinonychinae. Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered Acinonyx, Puma concolor, and Puma (= Herpailurus) yagouaroundi to represent close sister groups. Synonyms allocated according to McKenna and Bell (1997).
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Offspring:

SPECIES jubatus

SUBSPECIES jubatus

SUBSPECIES hecki

SUBSPECIES raineyi

SUBSPECIES soemmeringii

SUBSPECIES velox

SUBSPECIES venaticus

Synonyms:

    Acinomyx de Beaumont, 1964
    Cynaelurus Gloger, 1841
    Cynailurus Wagner, 1830
    Cynofelis Lesson, 1842
    Guepar Boitard, 1842
    Gueparda Gray, 1843
    Guepardus Duvernoy, 1834
    Paracinonyx Kretzoi, 1929

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