Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 282

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scientific name	Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, near Uppsala, Wennersborg .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga forest from Scandinavia to E. Siberia and N.E. China; montane Europe (formerly widespread, now restricted to Balkans and Carpathians); Asia Minor through mtns, of C. Asia to Kansu, Tsaidam (Tsinghai), Shansi, and Szechwan ( China); Sakhalin ( U.S. S. R.); perhaps Sardinia.

COMMENT: Does not include canadensis or pardinus ; see Matyushkin, 1979, Arch. Zool. Mus. Moscow St. Univ., 18:76-162, and Werdelin, 1981, Ann. Zool. Fenn., 18:37- 71. Includes isabellina; see Corbet, 1978:183.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001015001 as Felis lynx .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Felidae
Genus	Lynx