Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Panthera pardus

Description

Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:41.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt.

DISTRIBUTION: N. Africa; S.W. Asia, north Caucasus and Kopet Dag, throughout Oriental region to Java, north to Korea and Amur region; Subsaharan Africa.

COMMENT: Type locality fixed by Thomas, 1911. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911:135. Frequently exhibits melanism (AHS).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007002004001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 283, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Panthera
Species
pardus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982