Lynx Kerr, 1792

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 293

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Lynx Kerr, 1792 View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1:155.

TYPE SPECIES: Felis lynx Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ; 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 .