Puma Jardine 1834

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 : 544

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Puma Jardine 1834

Puma Jardine 1834 , Natur. Libr.: 266-267.

Type Species: Felis concolor Linnaeus 1771

Synonyms: Herpailurus Severtzov 1858 .

Species and subspecies: 2 species with 14 subspecies:

Species Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. concolor Linnaeus 1771

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. anthonyi Nelson and Goldman 1931

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. cabrerae Pocock 1940

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. costaricensis Merriam 1901

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. couguar Kerr 1792

Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. puma Molina 1782

Species Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803)

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. yagouaroundi É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. ameghinoi Holmberg 1898

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. cacomitli Berlandier 1859

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. eyra G. Fischer 1814

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. fossata Mearns 1901

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. melantho Thomas 1914

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. panamensis J. A. Allen 1904

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. tolteca Thomas 1898

Discussion: Placed as a subgenus in Felis by McKenna and Bell (1997) who separated yagouaroundi into Felis (Herpailurus) . Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered concolor and yagouaroundi monophyletic, with Acinonyx as the sister group.