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Lynx Kerr 1792
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Lynx Kerr, 1792. In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1:155.
TYPE SPECIES: Felis lynx Linnaeus, 1758; type species by absolute tautonymy (Melville and Smith, 1987).
SYNONYMS: Cervaria Gray, 1867; Eucervaria Palmer, 1903; Lynchus Jardine, 1834; Lynceus Gray, 1821; Lyncus Gray, 1825; Pardina; Kaup, 1829.
COMMENTS: Revised by Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981), and Garcfa-Perea (1992), who recognized the generic status of Lynx; Groves (1982a) and Hemmer (1978) considered Lynx a subgenus of Felis.
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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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References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Melville, R. V., and J. D. D. Smith (eds.). 1987. Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 366 pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310.
- Gray, J. E. 1825. Outline of an attempt at the disposition of the Mammalia into tribes and families with a list of the genera apparently appertaining to each tribe. Annals of Philosophy, n. s., ser. 2, 10: 337 - 344.
- 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.
- Groves, C. P. 1982 a. Cranial and dental characteristics in the systematics of Old World Felidae. Carnivore, 5 (2): 28 - 39.
- Hemmer, H. 1978. The evolutionary systematics of living Felidae: Present status and current problems. Carnivore, 1 (1): 71 - 79.