Puma (genus)
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| Puma[1] | |
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| Puma concolor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Felidae |
| Subfaimily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Puma Jardine, 1834 |
| Teep species | |
| Felis concolor Linnaeus, 1771
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| Species | |
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| Puma ranges | |
| Synonyms | |
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Herpailurus Severtzow, 1858 | |
Puma is a genus in Felidae that contains the cougar (forby kent as the puma, amang ither names) an the jaguarundi, an mey include several puirly kent Auld Warld fossil representatives (for ensaumple, Puma pardoides, or "Owen's panther," a lairge cougar-lik cat o Eurasie's Pleistocene) an aa.[2][3]
Species
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) – Cougar
- †Puma pardoides (Owen, 1846) – Owen's Panther
- Puma yagouaroundi (Geoffroy, 1803) – Jaguarundi
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 544–545. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Hemmer, H. (1965). Studien an "Panthera" schaubi Viret aus dem Villafranchien von Saint-Vallier (Drôme). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 122, 324–336.
- ↑ Hemmer, H., Kahlike, R.-D. & Vekua, A. K. (2004). The Old World puma Puma pardoides (Owen, 1846) (Carnivora: Felidae) in the Lower Villafranchian (Upper Pliocene) of Kvabebi (East Georgia, Transcaucasia) and its evolutionary and biogeographical significance. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 233, 197–233.
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