Definition of Felis concolor. Meaning of Felis concolor. Synonyms of Felis concolor

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Definition of Felis concolor

Felis concolor
Puma Pu"ma (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zo["o]l.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
Felis concolor
Cougar Cou"gar (k??"g?r), n. [F. couguar, from the native name in the South American dialects, cuguacuara, cuguacuarana.] (Zo["o]l.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

Meaning of Felis concolor from wikipedia

- been considered a unique cougar subspecies, with the scientific name Felis concolor coryi proposed by Outram Bangs in 1899. A genetic study of cougar mitochondrial...
- sometimes used instead of panther, mostly in the southern United States. Felis concolor was the scientific name proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1771 for a cat...
- Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It is the nominate subspecies. Felis concolor was proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1771 for the cougar type specimen,...
- "Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in American free-ranging or captive pumas (Felis concolor) and Bobcats (Lynx rufus)". Veterinary Parasitology. 120 (1–2): 1–9...
- Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther. pp. 413–414. Temminck, C. J. (1827). "Félis doré Felis aurata". Monographies de Mammalogie. Paris: G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne...
- closely related to the cougar (Puma concolor), naming the animal as Felis (Puma) inexpectata. A second species, Felis studeri, was described by D. E. Savage...
- indistinguishable. The eastern cougar was first ****igned to the subspecies Felis concolor couguar and the Florida panther to F. c. coryi. Young and Goldman based...
- glaring, or a colony. The scientific name Felis catus was proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for a domestic cat. Felis catus domesticus was proposed by Johann...
- "allied cat" (Felis affinis) by John Edward Gray in 1830. Two years later, Johann Friedrich von Brandt proposed a new species under the name Felis rüppelii...
- years ago. The generic name Felis is derived from classical Latin fēlis meaning 'cat, ferret'. Carl Linnaeus considered Felis to comprise all cat species...