Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Alternative combination: Felis pardus
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Panthera according to W. E. Johnson et al. 2006
See also Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser 2017, Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Geraads 1997, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985, Linnaeus 1758 and Thomas 1911
Sister taxa: Panthera (Jaguarius), Panthera balamoides, Panthera blytheae, Panthera gombaszoegensis, Panthera leo, Panthera onca, Panthera palaeosinensis, Panthera tigris, Panthera uncia, Panthera zdanskyi
Type specimen: 1
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Austria (1), China (7), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (3), Greece (6), Israel (2), Italy (15), Kenya (3), Monaco (2), Morocco (5), the Netherlands (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (26), Spain (2), Sudan (2), Swaziland (1), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (4), Turkey (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (3)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (1)
Total: 99 collections including 100 occurrences
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