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Goldman's jaguar

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Felidae

Rank
  
Subspecies

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivora

Genus
  
Panthera

Similar
  
Central American jaguar, Panthera onca hernandesii, Pantanal jaguar, Panthera onca augusta, European jaguar

Goldman's jaguar was proposed as a subspecies of jaguar, with the taxonomic name "Panthera onca goldmani" , which ranged from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, in the north, to Belize and Honduras in the south, before 1939. In 1939, due to lack of evidence, Reginald Innes Pocock accepted that it was the same subspecies as Panthera onca centralis or Panthera onca hernandesii, before recent tests failed to establish that the jaguar was divided into different subspecies. Like other jaguars, its population faced a decrease.

References

Goldman's jaguar Wikipedia