Wild Animal in Africa
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.
Panthera
Temporal range: Pliocene–Present[1]
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From top to bottom: tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Suborder:
Feliformia
Family:
Felidae
Subfamily:
Pantherinae
Genus:
Panthera
Oken, 1816[2]
Type species
Felis pardus
(= Panthera pardus)
Linnaeus, 1758[2]
Species
†Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853)
†Panthera balamoides Stinnesbeck et al., 2019
†Panthera blytheae Tseng et al., 2014
†Panthera dhokpathanensis Bakr, 1986
†Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906)
†Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938)
Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758)
†Panthera palaeosinensis (Zdansky, 1924)
Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
†Panthera principialis Hemmer, 2023
†Panthera shawi (Broom, 1948)
†Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810)
Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775)
†Panthera youngi Pei, 1934
†Panthera zdanskyi Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011
Synonyms[2]
About 10
Etymology