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Taxonomy
Felis spelaea was named by Goldfuss (1810).
It was recombined as Uncia spelea by Cope (1880); it was recombined as Felis leo spelaea by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Kurten (1968); it was recombined as Panthera spelaea by Sotnikova and Nikolskiy (2006); it was recombined as Panthera leo spelaea by Barnett et al. (2009).
It was recombined as Uncia spelea by Cope (1880); it was recombined as Felis leo spelaea by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Kurten (1968); it was recombined as Panthera spelaea by Sotnikova and Nikolskiy (2006); it was recombined as Panthera leo spelaea by Barnett et al. (2009).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1810 | Felis spelaea Goldfuss |
1880 | Uncia spelea Cope p. 858 |
1927 | Felis leo spelaea Boule and De Villeneuve p. 75 |
1968 | Felis leo spelaea Kurten p. 85 |
2006 | Panthera spelaea Sotnikova and Nikolskiy p. 220 |
2009 | Panthera leo spelaea Barnett et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Panthera leo spelaea Goldfuss 1810
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available