Acinonyx Brookes 1828 (cheetah)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

Parent taxon: Felinae according to W. E. Johnson et al. 2006

See also Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser 2017, Carroll 1988, Geraads 1997, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010

Sister taxa: Caracal, Catopuma, Felini, Felis, Herpailurus, Leopardus, Leptailurus, Leptofelis, Lynx, Miopanthera, Miracinonyx, Neofelis, Otocolobus, Panthera, Pardofelis, Pratifelis, Prionailurus, Pristifelis, Puma, Sivapanthera, Styriofelis

Subtaxa: Acinonyx aicha Acinonyx jubatus Acinonyx pardinensis

View classification

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), China (1), France (4), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Italy (2), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Spain (4), Tanzania (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Italy (1)

• Pliocene of France (1), Italy (1), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2)

Total: 33 collections including 34 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.