Kashmir leopard
| Kashmir leopard | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. pardus |
| Subspecies: | P. p. millardi |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera pardus millardi Pocock, 1930 | |
The Kashmir leopard ("Panthera pardus millardi") was proposed as a leopard subspecies native to Kashmir. Reginald Innes Pocock described it in 1930 on the basis of a single skin and skull that differed from typical "P. p. fusca" skins by longer hair and more greyish colour.[1]
Since it is geographically not isolated from leopard populations on the Indian subcontinent, it has been subsumed to P. p. fusca in 1996.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1930). The Panthers and Ounces of Asia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 34(2): 307–336.
- ↑ Miththapala, S.; Seidensticker, J.; O'Brien, S. J. (1996). "Phylogeographic Subspecies Recognition in Leopards (P. pardus): Molecular Genetic Variation". Conservation Biology. 10 (4): 1115–1132. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10041115.x.
- ↑ Uphyrkina, O.; Johnson, E.W.; Quigley, H.; Miquelle, D.; Marker, L.; Bush, M.; O'Brien, S. J. (2001). "Phylogenetics, genome diversity and origin of modern leopard, Panthera pardus" (PDF). Molecular Ecology. 10 (11): 2617–2633. doi:10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01350.x. PMID 11883877.
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