Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Felidae Rank Subspecies | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Genus Panthera | |
Similar Sinai leopard, Barbary leopard, Indochinese leopard, Zanzibar leopard, North‑Chinese leopard | ||
The Nepal leopard (Panthera pardus pernigra) was proposed as a leopard subspecies native to Sikkim and Nepal by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1863. Hodgson sent five skins collected in this region to the British Museum, out of which three were black.
Since it is geographically not isolated from leopard populations on the Indian subcontinent, it has been subsumed to P. p. fusca in 1996.
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