Siberian lynx | |
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A Siberian lynx at Dartmoor Zoological Park, England. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Felidae |
Genus: | Lynx |
Species: | L. lynx |
Subspecies: | L. l. wrangeli |
Trinomial name | |
Lynx lynx wrangeli (Ognev, 1928) |
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Synonyms | |
Lynx lynx cervaria |
Lynx lynx cervaria
(Temminck, 1824)
The Siberian lynx (Lynx lynx wrangeli), also known as East Siberian lynx, is a subspecies of Eurasian lynx living in the Russian Far East. It lives in the Stanovoy Range and east of the Yenisei River. There are 5,890 mature individuals in the Russian Far East as of 2013.