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Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.
Leopard (Panthera pardus), found in Africa and Asia Black panther , a name for the phenotypic genetic variant that forms the black leopard or jaguar Cougar , a big cat that is not in the subfamily Pantherinae, but is commonly referred to as a panther
The Pantherinae is a subfamily of the Felidae; it was named and first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1917 as only including the Panthera species, [2] but later also came to include the clouded leopards (genus Neofelis).
Panthera fossilis (also known as Panthera leo fossilis or Panthera spelaea fossilis) is an extinct species of cat belonging to the genus Panthera, known from remains ...
Panthera onca mesembrina, also known as the Patagonian panther, [1] is an extinct subspecies of jaguar (Panthera onca) that was endemic to southern Patagonia during the late Pleistocene epoch. It is known from several fragmentary specimens, the first of which found was in 1899 at " Cueva del Milodon " in Chile .
Pachypanthera was a pantherine cat, related to Neofelis, Panthera, and possibly Miopanthera. However, a phylogenetic analysis was not conducted in the description of Pachypanthera, and so its exact evolutionary relationships remain unresolved. [1]
Onça is the Brazilian Portuguese word for jaguar, Panthera onca, where a spotted jaguar is known as onça-pintada and a melanistic one as onça-preta. These are real animals, occurring as far north as Mexico and possibly into the southwest of the United States.
In Asia, Panthera's Tigers Forever project is planning a 5,000-mile (8,000 km) long corridor from Bhutan to Myanmar for wild tiger populations. The corridor would also include land in northeast India, Thailand, and Malaysia, and possibly Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. [17] Panthera works in India, and has increased tiger numbers in Manas National ...