Jaguar

Jaguar Temporal range: 0.5–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Middle Pleistocene – Recent
Male Pantanal jaguar near Three Brothers River in Brazil
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Faimily:	Felidae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. onca
Binomial name
Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Jaguar range Red: Current range Bricht pink: Umwhile range
Synonyms
Felis onca Linnaeus, 1758

Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, an is the anerlie Panthera species fand in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-mucklest 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.