Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Synonyms: Leo Brehm 1829, Tigris Gray 1843
Parent taxon: Felinae according to W. E. Johnson et al. 2006
See also Alroy 2002, Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser 2017, Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Geraads 1997, Hemmer 1967, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Mazak et al. 2011, Sotnikova and Nikolskiy 2006, Tseng et al. 2013 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: Acinonyx, Caracal, Catopuma, Felini, Felis, Herpailurus, Leopardus, Leptailurus, Leptofelis, Lynx, Magerifelis, Miopanthera, Miracinonyx, Neofelis, Otocolobus, Pardofelis, Pratifelis, Prionailurus, Pristifelis, Puma, Sivapanthera, Styriofelis
Subtaxa: Panthera (Jaguarius) Panthera balamoides Panthera blytheae Panthera gombaszoegensis Panthera leo Panthera onca Panthera palaeosinensis Panthera pardus Panthera tigris Panthera uncia Panthera zdanskyi
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Argentina (8), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (4), Brazil (9), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: Alberta), Chile (7), China (18), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (4), France (11), Georgia (2), Germany (7), Greece (13), Hungary (4), India (4), Indonesia (6), Israel (3), Italy (27), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (10), Laos (1), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (5), Monaco (2), Mongolia (1), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (6), Portugal (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (36), Spain (14), Sudan (2), Swaziland (1), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (7), Thailand (2), Turkey (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (57: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming), Uruguay (5), Zambia (1)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (1: Kansas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (4), Turkey (1)
• Pliocene of China (1), Ethiopia (2), Hungary (2), India (1), Kenya (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of China (3), South Africa (1)
Total: 370 collections including 427 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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