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classical Latin word 'panthēra' and the
ancient Gr**** word πάνθηρ 'panther'.
Felis leo was the
scientific name used by Carl
Linnaeus in 1758, who
described the...
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proposed the
following subspecies:
Felis leo somaliensis (Noack 1891),
based on two lion
specimens from
Somalia Felis leo m****aicus (Neumann 1900), based...
- and
proposed as subspecies:
Felis leo persicus described in 1826 by
Johann N.
Meyer was a lion skin from Persia.
Felis leo senegalensis also described...
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published in 1826 by the
Austrian zoologist Johann N. Meyer, who
named it
Felis leo persicus.
Until the 19th century, it
occurred in
Saudi Arabia, eastern...
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particularly distinctive from
other Southern African lion po****tions.
Felis (
Leo)
melanochaita was a black-maned lion
specimen from the Cape of Good Hope...
- including:
Felis ocreata by
Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1791 was
based on a
description of a
wildcat encountered in
northern Ethiopia by
James Bruce.
Felis cafra...
- century:
Felis leo barbaricus,
described by the
Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer in 1826, was a lion skin from the
Barbary Coast.
Felis leo nubicus...
- "allied cat" (
Felis affinis) by John
Edward Gray in 1830. Two
years later,
Johann Friedrich von
Brandt proposed a new
species under the name
Felis rüppelii...
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clowder or a glaring. The
scientific name
Felis catus was
proposed by Carl
Linnaeus in 1758 for a
domestic cat.
Felis catus domesticus was
proposed by Johann...
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years ago. The
generic name
Felis is
derived from
classical Latin fēlis meaning 'cat, ferret'. Carl
Linnaeus considered Felis to
comprise all cat species...
