Southeast African cheetah

Southeast African cheetah
A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Felinae
Genus: Acinonyx
Species:
A. jubatus
Subspecies:
A. j. jubatus[1]
Trinomial name
Acinonyx jubatus jubatus[1]
(Schreber, 1775)
A. j. jubatus range (blue)
Synonyms

A. j. guttata (Hermann, 1804)
A. j. fearsoni (Smith, 1834)
A. j. fearonis (Fitzinger, 1869)
A. j. lanea (Sclater, 1877)
A. j. obergi (Hilzheimer, 1913)
A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913)
A. j. raineyi (Heller, 1913)
A. j. velox (Heller, 1913)
A. j. rex (Pocock, 1927)

The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate cheetah subspecies native to East and Southern Africa.[1] 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.[2] In India, four cheetahs of the subspecies are living in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh after having been introduced there.[3]

  1. ^ a b Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O’Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News (Special Issue 11): 30−31.
  2. ^ Durant, S.; Mitchell, N.; Ipavec, A.; Groom, R. (2015). "Acinonyx jubatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T219A50649567. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T219A50649567.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  3. ^ "2 More Namibian Cheetahs Released Into Wild At Kuno National Park". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2023-03-23.