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Lynx canadensis Kerr 1792
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Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792. In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1:157.
TYPE LOCALITY: " Canada "; listed in Miller (1912b) as "Eastern Canada ".
DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of North America, south to C Utah and SW Colorado, NE Nebraska, S Indiana, and West Virginia (USA).
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS: mollipilosus Stone, 1900; subsolanus Bangs, 1897.
COMMENTS: Considered distinct from L. lynx by Kurtén and Anderson (1980), Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981), and Garcfa-Perea (1992). Weigel (1961) and Tumlison (1987) considered these taxa conspecific.
Notes
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 293, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Felidae
- Genus
- Lynx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerr
- Species
- canadensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792 sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Miller, G. S., Jr. 1912 b. List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 79: 1 - 455.
- Kurten, B., and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America. Columbia University Press New York, 442 pp.
- Matyushkin, E. N. 1979. Rysi Golarktiki [Lynx of the Holarctic]. Pp. 76 - 162, in Mlekopitayushchie: Issledovaniya po faune Sovetskovo Soyuza [Mammals: Investigations on the fauna of the Soviet Union] (O. L. Rossolimo, ed). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Muzeya MGU, 13: 1 - 279 (in Russian).
- Werdelin, L. 1981. The evolution of lynxes. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 18: 37 - 71.
- Weigel, I. 1961. Das Fellmuster der wildlebenden Katzenarten und der Hauskatze in Vergleichender und Stammesgeschicher Hinsicht. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 9: 1 - 120.
- Tumlison, R. 1987. Felis lynx. Mammalian Species, 269: 1 - 8.