Jaguar
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| Jaguar [1] | |
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| Scienteefic classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. onca |
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| Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Jaguar range | |
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, an is the anerlie Panthera species foond in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-lairgest feline efter the tiger an the lion, an the lairgest an maist pouerful feline in the Wastren Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends frae Mexico athort muckle o Central Americae an sooth tae Paraguay an northren Argentinae. Apairt frae a kent an possibly breedin population in Arizona (sootheast o Tucson), the cat haes lairgely been extirpatit frae the Unitit States since the early 1900s.
References[eedit | edit source]
- ↑ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 546–547. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Caso, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, C., Payan, E., Eizirik, E., de Oliveira, T., Leite-Pitman, R., Kelly, M. & Valderrama, C. (2008). "Panthera onca". IUCN Red Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naiture. Retrieved 7 July 2011. Database entry includes justification for why this species is near threatened.
Categories:
- IUCN Reid Leet near threatened species
- Panthera
- Animals describit in 1758
- Fauna o the Soothwastren Unitit States
- Mammals o North Americae
- Mammals o Sooth Americae
- Mammals o the Unitit States
- Megafauna o North Americae
- Megafauna o Sooth Americae
- Naitional seembols o Guyana
- Portuguese loanwords
- Mammals o Costa Rica
- Mammals o Mexico
- Mammals o Guatemala
