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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

Scientific name authorship
Kerr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Lynx
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.