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Taxonomy
Felis rufa was named by Schreber (1777) [also said to be 1776]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Felis (Lynx) rufa by Kerr (1792); it was synonymized subjectively with Felis borealis by Mivart (1882); it was recombined as Felis (Lynx) rufus by Mooser and Dalquest (1975); it was misspelled as Felis ruffus by Hay (1902) and Auffenberg (1967); it was recombined as Lynx rufus by Schultz and Howard (1935), Slaughter (1966), Slaughter (1966), Lundelius (1972), Ewer (1973), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Johnson et al. (2006) and Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).
It was recombined as Felis (Lynx) rufa by Kerr (1792); it was synonymized subjectively with Felis borealis by Mivart (1882); it was recombined as Felis (Lynx) rufus by Mooser and Dalquest (1975); it was misspelled as Felis ruffus by Hay (1902) and Auffenberg (1967); it was recombined as Lynx rufus by Schultz and Howard (1935), Slaughter (1966), Slaughter (1966), Lundelius (1972), Ewer (1973), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hulbert and Pratt (1998), Johnson et al. (2006) and Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1776 | Felis rufa Schreber |
1777 | Felis rufa Schreber |
1792 | Felis (Lynx) rufa Kerr |
1899 | Felis calcaratus Cope |
1902 | Felis calcaratus Hay p. 782 |
1902 | Felis ruffus Hay p. 783 |
1908 | Lynx compressus Brown |
1935 | Lynx rufus Schultz and Howard p. 285 |
1966 | Lynx rufus Slaughter p. 81 |
1967 | Felis rufus Auffenberg p. 320 |
1972 | Lynx rufus Lundelius, Jr. |
1973 | Lynx rufus Ewer |
1975 | Felis (Lynx) rufus Mooser and Dalquest p. 790 |
1980 | Lynx rufus Kurten and Anderson p. 197 |
1998 | Lynx rufus Hulbert, Jr. and Pratt |
2006 | Lynx rufus Johnson et al. |
2017 | Lynx rufus Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser p. 38 |
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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.
Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 [bobcat]
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Invalid names: Felis calcaratus Cope 1899 [synonym], Lynx compressus Brown 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988 |
Age range: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (66 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Blancan | USA (Texas) | Lynx rufus (20033) | |
Blancan | USA (Washington) | Lynx rufus (20062) | |
Blancan | USA (California) | Lynx rufus (20094 20116 20119 20122) | |
Blancan - Irvingtonian | USA (New Mexico) | Lynx rufus (20397) | |
Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Lynx rufus (227368) | |
Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Lynx rufus (124319) | |
Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Lynx rufus (93253) | |
Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Texas) | Lynx rufus (93258) | |
Calabrian | USA (Virginia) | Lynx rufus (104698) | |
Irvingtonian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Lynx rufus (20563) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (West Virginia) | Lynx rufus (20554) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (California) | Lynx rufus (20129 20327) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Arkansas) | Lynx rufus (20290) | |
Irvingtonian | Mexico (Aguascalientes) | Lynx rufus (20283) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Colorado) | Lynx rufus (20150 20296 20300 20559) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Alabama) | Lynx rufus (20281) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Felis rufus (20289 20400 20482 20520) Lynx rufus (20350 20351) | |
Irvingtonian | USA (New Mexico) | Lynx rufus (20558) | |
Rancholabrean | USA (South Carolina) | Lynx rufus (79757) | |
Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Lynx rufus (20495) | |
Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Felis rufus (20491) Lynx rufus (195112) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Lynx rufus (154771) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Lynx rufus (20604) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Indiana) | Lynx rufus (20600) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Felis rufus (13066) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Montana) | Lynx rufus (162128) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Lynx rufus (154722) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (Texas) | Lynx rufus (93103) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Lynx rufus (104758) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Felis rufus (20638 74292 154805) Lynx rufus (34269 154804) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Lynx rufus (93281) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Texas) | Felis rufus (79582) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Idaho) | Felis rufus (20569) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (New Mexico) | Lynx rufus (76059 76060) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Quintana Roo) | Lynx rufus (212361) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Lynx rufus (73752) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Felis rufus (20573 20594 20650) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Texas) | Felis rufa (74473) Lynx rufus (79683) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Mexico (Chihuahua) | Lynx rufus (71263) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Mississippi) | Lynx rufus (93345) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Utah) | Lynx rufus (93326) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Tennessee) | Lynx rufus (63429) | |
Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Lynx rufus (104675) | |
Holocene | Canada (Quebec) | Lynx rufus (224189) | |
Holocene | USA (Texas) | Felis rufus (79584) |