Lynx lynx (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 541

Lynx lynx (Linnaeus 1758)

[Felis] lynx Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 43 .

Type Locality: "Europe sylvis and desertis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911 a:136) to "Wennersborg, S. Sweden " .

Vernacular Names: Eurasian Lynx.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lynx lynx subsp. lynx Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Lynx lynx subsp. isabellinus Blyth 1847

Subspecies Lynx lynx subsp. kozlovi Fetisov 1950

Subspecies Lynx lynx subsp. sardiniae Mola 1908

Subspecies Lynx lynx subsp. stroganovi Heptner 1969

Distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (?), China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq (?), Italy, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Serbia and Montenegro. Recently extinct in Bulgaria.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Near Threatened.

Discussion: Does not include L. canadensis or L. pardinus , following Pocock (1917 a), Hemmer (1978), Matyushkin (1979), García-Perea (1992), Werdelin (1981), Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000). Includes isabellinus ( Gao, 1987) . Reviewed in part by Tumlison (1987) as Felis lynx . Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Tumlison (1987).