Balochistan leopard

Balochistan leopard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. pardus
Subspecies: P. p. sindica
Trinomial name
Panthera pardus sindica
Pocock, 1930

The Balochistan leopard (Panthera pardus sindica) was proposed as a leopard subspecies native to Balochistan. Reginald Innes Pocock described it in 1930 on the basis of a single skin and two skulls from the Kirthar Mountains. He admitted that the skin closely resembled those of P. p. saxicolor, but is distinguishable from the typical P. p. fusca in colour.[1] Based on genetic analysis, it was subsumed to P. p. saxicolor.[2][3] It is considered synonymous with this subspecies.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1930.) The Panthers and Ounces of Asia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 34(1): 65–82.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Khorozyan, I. G.; Gennady, F.; Baryshnikov, G. F.; Abramov, A. V. (2006). "Taxonomic status of the leopard, Panthera pardus (Carnivora, Felidae) in the Caucasus and adjacent areas" (PDF). Russian Journal of Theriology. 5 (1): 41–52.

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