Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)

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Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771) View in CoL

[Felis] concolor Linnaeus 1771 View in CoL , Mantissa Plantarum, Vol. 2: 266.

Type Locality: "Brassilia", restricted by Goldman (In Young and Goldman, 1946:200) to "Cayenne region, French Guiana " .

Vernacular Names: Cougar.

Subspecies: :

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

Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as F. c. coryi, F. c. costaricensis , and F. c. couguar ; otherwise Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as F. c. coryi, F. c. costaricensis , and F. c. couguar ; U.S. ESA – Similarity of Appearance to a Threatened Taxa (Florida); IUCN – Critically Endangered as P. c. couguar and P. c. coryi, otherwise Near Threatened.

Discussion: Reviewed by Currier (1983) as Felis concolor . Placed in Puma by Pocock (1917 a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982 c). Synonyms allocated according to Culver et al. (2000).

References

Culver, M., W. E. Johnson, J. Pecon-Slattery, and S. J. O'Brien. 2000. Genomic ancestry of the American puma (Puma concolor). Journal of Heredity, 91: 186 - 197.

Currier, M. J. P. 1983. Felis concolor. Mammalian Species, 200: 1 - 7.

Hemmer, H. 1978. The evolutionary systematics of living Felidae: Present status and current problems. Carnivore, 1 (1): 71 - 79.

Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.

Molina, G. I. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna.

Pocock, R. I. 1917 a. The classification of the existing Felidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 20: 329 - 350.

Weigel, I. 1961. Das Fellmuster der wildlebenden Katzenarten und der Hauskatze in Vergleichender und Stammesgeschicher Hinsicht. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 9: 1 - 120.

Young, S. P., and E. A. Goldman. 1946. The puma: Mysterious American cat. American Wildlife Institute, 358 pp.