Panthera pardus
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Panthera
Panthera pardus

description: <i>Panthera pardus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:41. TYPE LOCALITY: "Indiis", fixed by Thomas (1911a:135), as " Egypt "; see discussion by Pocock (1930a). DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Botswana, Burma, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia (Java), Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Korea, Liberia, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, republics of the former USSR, Vietnam, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered (except in Africa, in the wild, south of, and including Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, and Kenya, where this species is Threatened). IUCN - Threatened. SYNONYMS: <i>adersi</i> Pocock, 1932; <i>adusta</i> Pocock, 1927; <i>antinorii</i> de Beaux, 1923; <i>antiquorum</i> Fitzinger, 1868; <i>barbarus</i> de Blainville, 1839; <i>bedfordi</i> Pocock, 1930; <i>brockmani</i> Pocock, 1932; <i>centralis</i> Lönnberg, 1917; <i>chinensis</i> Gray, 1867; <i>chui</i> Heller, 1913; <i>ciscaucasicus</i> Satunin, 1914; <i>delacouri</i> Pocock, 1930; <i>fontanierii A..</i> M. Edwards, 1867; <i>fortis</i> Heller, 1913; <i>fusca</i> Meyer, 1794; <i>grayi</i> Trouessart, 1904; <i>hanensis</i> Matschie, 1907; <i>iturensis</i> J. A. Allen, 1924; <i>japonensis</i> Gray, 1862; <i>jarvisi</i> Pocock, 1932; <i>kotiya</i> Deraniyagala, 1956; <i>leopardus</i> Schreber, 1777; <i>longicaudata</i> Valenciennes, 1856; <i>melanotica</i> Günther, 1885; <i>mêlas</i> G. Cuvier, 1809; <i>miliardi</i> Pocock, 1930; <i>minor</i> Matschie, 1895; <i>nanopardus</i> Thomas, 1904; <i>niger</i> Fitzinger, 1868; <i>nimr</i> Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833; <i>orientalis</i> Schlegel, 1857; <i>palearia</i> Cuvier, 1832; <i>perniger</i> Hodgson, 1863; <i>poecilura</i> Valenciennes, 1856; <i>poliopardus</i> Brehm, 1863; <i>puella</i> Pocock, 1932; <i>reichenowi</i> Cabrera, 1918; <i>ruwenzorii</i> Camerano, 1906; <i>saxicolor</i> Pocock, 1927; <i>shortridgei</i> Pocock, 1932; <i>sindica</i> Pocock, 1930; <i>suahelicus</i> Neumann, 1900; <i>tulliana</i> Valenciennes, 1856; <i>variegata</i> Wagner, 1841; <i>varius</i> Gray, 1843; <i>villosa</i> Bonhote, 1903; <i>vulgaris</i> Oken, 1816. COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1930a, 6, 1932c). Placed in <i>Panthera</i> by Pocock (1930a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvil (1982c), and Groves (1982a).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 298, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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