Southern African cheetah
| South African cheetah | |
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| A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx |
| Species: | A. jubatus |
| Subspecies: | A. j. jubatus |
| Trinomial name | |
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Acinonyx jubatus jubatus (Schreber, 1775) |
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| A. j. jubatus range (blue and red) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acinonyx jubatus guttata |
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Acinonyx jubatus guttata
(Hermann, 1804)
Acinonyx jubatus fearsoni
(Smith, 1834)
Acinonyx jubatus fearonis
(Fitzinger, 1869)
Acinonyx jubatus lanea
(Sclater, 1877)
Acinonyx jubatus obergi
(Hilzheimer, 1913)
Acinonyx jubatus ngorongorensis
(Hilzheimer, 1913)
Acinonyx jubatus raineyi
(Heller, 1913)
Acinonyx jubatus velox
(Heller, 1913)
Acinonyx jubatus rex
(Pocock, 1927)
The South African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus), also known as the Namibian cheetah, is the most numerous and the nominate cheetah subspecies native to Southern Africa. The Southern African cheetah lives mainly in the lowland areas and deserts of the Kalahari, the savannahs of Okavango Delta, and the grasslands of the Transvaal region in South Africa. In Namibia, cheetahs are mostly found in farmlands. The Southern African cheetah was first described by the German zoologist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1775 and named Felis jubatus on the basis of a specimen from the Cape of Good Hope.
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