Genus within Felidae
Panthera
Temporal range: Pliocene–Present[1]
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From top to bottom: tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Order:
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Carnivora
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Suborder:
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Feliformia
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Family:
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Felidae
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Subfamily:
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Pantherinae
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Genus:
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Panthera Oken, 1816[2]
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Type species
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Felis pardus (= Panthera pardus)
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Species
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- †Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853)
- †Panthera balamoides Stinnesbeck et al., 2019
- †Panthera blytheae Tseng et al., 2014
- †Panthera dhokpathanensis Bakr, 1986
- †Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906)
- †Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938)
- Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758)
- †Panthera palaeosinensis (Zdansky, 1924)
- Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- †Panthera principialis Hemmer, 2023
- †Panthera shawi (Broom, 1948)
- †Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810)
- Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775)
- †Panthera youngi Pei, 1934
- †Panthera zdanskyi Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011
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Synonyms[2]
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- Jaguarius Severtzov, 1858
- Leo Frisch, 1775
- Leonina Greve, 1894
- Leoninae Wagner, 1841
- Pardotigris Kretzoi, 1929
- Pardus Fitzinger, 1868
- Tigrina Greve, 1894
- Tigrinae Wagner, 1841
- Tigris Gray, 1843
- Tigris Frisch, 1775
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Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae. It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.