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Kashmir leopard

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Felidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivora

Genus
  
Panthera

The Kashmir leopard ("Panthera pardus millardi") was proposed as a leopard subspecies native to Kashmir. Reginald Innes Pocock described it in 1930 on the basis of a single skin and skull that differed from typical "P. p. fusca" skins by longer hair and more greyish colour.

Since it is geographically not isolated from leopard populations on the Indian subcontinent, it has been subsumed to P. p. fusca in 1996.

References

Kashmir leopard Wikipedia