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The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) ... Felis pardus was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758.
Felis pardus was the scientific name proposed by Carl ... (7.9 in) in breadth, and weighed 1 kg (2.2 lb). The skull of an African leopard measured 286 mm (11.3 in) in ...
Scientific name Image Weight range kg (pounds) Maximum weight kg (pounds) ... Africa, Asia: 7 Snow leopard: Panthera uncia: 30-39 [40] (66-85) 53.8 (118) [41] 1.6–2 ...
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.
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Clouded leopard. N. nebulosa (Griffith, 1821) Scattered Southeast Asia and southern China (current in red, historical range in green) Size: 69–108 cm (27–43 in) long, 61–91 cm (24–36 in) tail [80] Habitat: Forest and shrubland [81]
A black African leopard (P. p. pardus) was sighted in the alpine zone of Mount Kenya in the winter of 1989–1990. [9] In Kenya's Laikipia County, a black leopard was photographed by a camera trap in 2007; in 2018, a female subadult black leopard was repeatedly recorded together with a spotted leopard about 50 km (31 mi) farther east in a ...
The Zanzibar leopard was described as a leopard subspecies by Reginald Innes Pocock, who proposed the scientific name Panthera pardus adersi in 1932. [6] Following molecular genetic analysis of leopard samples, it was subsumed to the African leopard (P. p. pardus) in 1996.
The Leopard of the Caucasus, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1899. Felis tulliana was the scientific name proposed by Achille Valenciennes in 1856, who described a skin and skull from a leopard killed near Smyrna, in western Anatolia. [2] In the 19th and 20th centuries, several naturalists described leopard zoological specimens from the Middle East: