Panthera onca (Linnaeus 1758)

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Panthera onca (Linnaeus 1758) View in CoL

[Felis] onca Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 42 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "America meridionali", fixed by Thomas (1911 a:136) as " Pernambuco " [ Brazil] .

Vernacular Names: Jaguar.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. onca Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. arizonensis Goldman 1932

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. centralis Mearns 1901

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. goldmani Mearns 1901

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. hernandesii J. E. Gray 1857

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. palustris Ameghino 1888

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. paraguensis Hollister 1914

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. peruviana de Blainville 1843

Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. veraecruscis Nelson and Goldman 1933

Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. Recently extinct in United States, El Salvador, and Uruguay.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Near Threatened.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981), Seymour (1989) and Cabrera (1957). Revised by Nelson and Goldman (1933 a), Pocock (1939 b), and Larson (1997). Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1939 b), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a). Reviewed by Seymour (1989). A multivariate analysis of skull morphology could not discriminate among subspecies ( Larson, 1997).

References

Cabrera, A. 1957 [1958] - 1961. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia . Ciencias Zoologicas, 4 (1): iv + 308 pp. [1958]; 4 (2): v-xxii + 309 - 732 [1961].

Goldman, E. A. 1932. Review of woodrats of Neotoma lepida group. Journal of Mammalogy, 13: 59 - 67.

Groves, C. P. 1982 a. Cranial and dental characteristics in the systematics of Old World Felidae. Carnivore, 5 (2): 28 - 39.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

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

Hollister, N. 1914. A systematic account of the grasshopper mice. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47: 427 - 489.

Larson, S. E. 1997. Taxonomic re-evaluation of the Jaguar. Zoo Biology, 16: 107 - 120.

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.

Nelson, E. W., and E. A. Goldman. 1933 a. Revision of the jaguars. Journal of Mammalogy, 14 (3): 221 - 240.

Pocock, R. I. 1939 b. The races of jaguar (Panthera onca). Novitates Zoologicae, 41: 406 - 422.

Seymour, K. L. 1989. Panthera onca. Mammalian Species, 340: 1 - 9.

Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.

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