Arizonan jaguar

The Arizona jaguar was proposed as a subspecies of jaguar, with the taxonomic name "Panthera onca arizonensis" (Goldman, 1932), which ranged from Sonora in Mexico, to the southwestern part of United States of America, before 1939. In 1939, due to lack of evidence, Reginald Innes Pocock accepted that it was the same subspecies as Panthera onca centralis or Panthera onca hernandesii,^[2] before recent tests failed to establish that the jaguar was divided into different subspecies.^[3]^[4] Like other jaguars, its population faces a decline.^[5]

Notable individuals

A number of jaguars had been recently sighted in Arizona:^[6]^[7]^[8]

El Jefe, which was first spotted in 2011.^[6]
On the 1st of December, 2016, another male jaguar was photographed in Fort Huachuca also in Arizona.^[7]
In February 2017, authorities revealed that a third jaguar had been photographed in November of 2016, by the Bureau of Land Management in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, also in Arizona, some 100.0 km (62.1 miles) north of the border with Mexico.^[8] The only picture obtained allowed experts to determine this is a different individual, but it does not reveal its sex.

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↑ 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.
↑ Ruiz-Garcia, M.; Payan, E; Murillo, A. & Alvarez, D. (2006). "DNA microsatellite characterization of the jaguar (Panthera onca) in Colombia" (PDF). Genes & Genetic Systems. 81 (2): 115–127. doi:10.1266/ggs.81.115. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
↑ Nowell, K.; Jackson, P., eds. (1996). "Panthera Onca". Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. IUCN. pp. 118–122. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
1 2 Arizona Game and Fish Department (21 November 2011). "Game and Fish confirms report of jaguar in southern Arizona". Arizona Game and Fish Department Media web page. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
1 2 Ames, John (7 December 2016). "Jaguar seen on Fort Huachuca trail camera". Jaguar seen on Fort Huachuca. Raycom Media. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
1 2 "Rare jaguar sighting in Arizona, 60 miles north of Mexican border". Newsweek. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2017-03-03.

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