Bolivian jaguar

Bolivian jaguar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera [1]
Species: P. onca
Binomial name
Panthera onca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Bolivian jaguar is a jaguar in Bolivia. Previously, it had the taxonomic name Panthera onca boliviensis (Nelson and Goldman, 1933), before it was considered as being of Panthera onca palustris, by Carbera (1957),[2][3] before later research failed to find evidence for different subspecies of jaguars.[4]

References

  1. Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 546–548. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Seymour, K.L. (1989). "Panthera onca" (PDF). Mammalian Species 340 (340): 1–9. doi:10.2307/3504096. JSTOR 3504096. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  3. Reeder, D.A.M., and Jackson, D.E., ed. (2005). "Order Carnivora". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 1. Baltimore, Maryland, the United States of America: Johns Hopkins University Press.N. pp. 546–548. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  4. Larson, Shawn E. (1997). "Taxonomic re-evaluation of the jaguar". Zoo Biology 16 (2): 107–120. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1997)16:2<107::AID-ZOO2>3.0.CO;2-E.

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