Jaguars south of the Amazon River

Jaguars south of the Amazon River
A 1739 advert by Charles Benjamin Incledon, for residents of London, featuring feliforms: the Mesopotamian lion from the vicinity of Bassorah, Cape lion, tiger from the East Indies, 'panther' (this word can refer to the leopard, jaguar or cougar)[1][2] from Buenos Aires, Hyaena hyaena from West Africa, and leopard from Turkey, besides a "Man tyger" from Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera [3]
Species: P. onca
Binomial name
Panthera onca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Before recent tests failed to establish that the jaguar was divided into different subspecies,[4] it was presumed that different subspecies existed north and south of the Amazon River, such as Panthera onca onca north of the river, and Panthera onca palustris south of the river. Eventually, it was reckoned that geographical barriers, such as the Amazon River or the Andes Mountains, limited the flow of genes between jaguars, if not restricting them to be different subspecies. Southern jaguars disappeared in a number of places, like the Pampas' part of Argentina and Uruguay.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ John Hampden Porter (1894). Wild beasts; a study of the characters and habits of the elephant, lion, leopard, panther, jaguar, tiger, puma, wolf, and grizzly bear. p. 239.
  2. ↑ Caso, A.; Lopez-Gonzalez, C.; Payan, E.; Eizirik, E.; de Oliveira, T.; Leite-Pitman, R.; Kelly, M.; Valderrama, C. & Lucherini, M. (2008). "Puma concolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ 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.
  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.
  5. ↑ "Subespecies del Jaguar". AnimalesExtincion. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
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