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Panthera onca arizonensis

Arizona jaguar
El-jefe-jaguar-fws1.jpg
El Jefe the jaguar, 2013.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. onca
Binomial name
Panthera onca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Arizona jaguar was proposed as a subspecies of jaguar, with the taxonomic name "Panthera onca arizonensis" (Goldman, 1932), which ranged from Sonora in Mexico, to the southwestern part of United States of America, before 1939. In 1939, due to lack of evidence, Reginald Innes Pocock accepted that it was the same subspecies as Panthera onca centralis or Panthera onca hernandesii, before recent tests failed to establish that the jaguar was divided into different subspecies. Like other jaguars, its population faces a decline.

A number of jaguars had been recently sighted in Arizona:


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