Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber 1775)

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 : 532

Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber 1775)

[Felis] jubata Schreber 1775 , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 2, 15: pl. 105 [1775]; also see text 3 (22): 392 [1777].

Type Locality: "südliche Afrika; man bekömmt die Felle vom Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung" [ South Africa, Western Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope].

Vernacular Names: Cheetah.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. jubatus Schreber 1775

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. hecki Hilzheimer 1913

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. raineyi Heller 1913

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. soemmeringii Fitzinger 1855

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. velox Heller 1913

Subspecies Acinonyx jubatus subsp. venaticus Griffith 1821

Distribution: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Afghanistan, Burundi, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, Yemen.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered as A. j. venaticus, Endangered as A. j. hecki , otherwise Vulnerable.

Discussion: Placed in Acinonyx by Pocock (1917 b), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Král and Zima (1980), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a). Subspecies and their synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953).