Lynx canadensis Kerr 1792

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 : 541

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Lynx canadensis Kerr 1792 View in CoL

Lynx canadensis Kerr 1792 View in CoL , in: Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, Vol. 1: 157.

Type Locality: " Canada "; listed in Miller (1912 a) as "Eastern Canada " .

Vernacular Names: Canadian Lynx.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lynx canadensis subsp. canadensis Kerr 1792

Subspecies Lynx canadensis subsp. mollipilosus Stone 1900

Subspecies Lynx canadensis subsp. subsolanus Bangs 1897

Distribution: Canada, USA (C Utah and SW Colorado, NE Nebraska, S Indiana, and West Virginia).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Threatened; IUCN – Least Concern.

Discussion: Considered distinct from L. lynx by Kurtén and Anderson (1980), Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981), and García-Perea (1992). Reviewed in part by Tumlison (1987) as Felis lynx .

References

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.

Matyushkin, E. N. 1979. Rysi Golarktiki [Lynx of the Holarctic]. Pp. 76 - 162, in Mlekopitayushchie: Issledovaniya po faune Sovetskovo Soyuza [Mammals: Investigations on the fauna of the Soviet Union] (O. L. Rossolimo, ed). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Muzeya MGU, 13: 1 - 279 (in Russian).

Miller, G. S., Jr. 1912 a. Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London, 1019 pp.

Tumlison, R. 1987. Felis lynx. Mammalian Species, 269: 1 - 8.

Werdelin, L. 1981. The evolution of lynxes. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 18: 37 - 71.