North American cougar
| North American cougar[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Puma |
| Species: | P. concolor |
| Subspecies: | P. c. couguar |
| Trinomial name | |
| Puma concolor couguar (Kerr, 1792)
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The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar), is the cougar subspecies ance kent ower aa eastren North Americae, an braidly fund in the wastren hauf o the continent.
As weel as twa three foregane subspecies o cougar o the western Unitit States an wastren Canadae, Puma concolor couguar maks up the nummers o the eastren cougar left, whaur the cat wis kent as the panther an aw. The anerly yins kent left tae actual exist is the creetically endangered Florida panther population. Mony extinct populations, sic as the Wisconsin cougar, thit wis extirpatit in 1925, are pit in wi in the subspecies an aw.
References
eedit- ↑ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 544–545. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ {{{assessors}}} (1996). Puma concolor ssp. couguar. 2006. IUCN Red Leet o Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 2007-02-07. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this subspecies is critically endangered and the criteria used
Sources
eedit- Wright, Bruce S. The Eastern Panther: A Question of Survival. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1972.
Freemit airtins
eedit- Eastern Cougar Foundation
- National Heritage Information Centre: General Element Report: Puma concolor Archived 2015-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Eastern Cougar Fact Sheet
- The IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine