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Panthera onca hernandesii

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Felidae

Rank
  
Subspecies

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivora

Genus
  
Panthera

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

Panthera onca hernandesii was proposed as a subspecies of jaguar, native to Mexico and the United States, before later research failed to find evidence for it. In 1939, due to lack of evidence, Reginald Innes Pocock accepted that other proposed subspecies, Panthera onca arizonensis, Panthera onca centralis, Panthera onca goldmani, and Panthera onca veraecrucis, were the same subspecies as Panthera onca hernandesii. Therefore, the taxonomic name Panthera onca hernandesii referred to a geographic group, if not subspecies, of jaguars, from the United States and Mexico in the north, Central America in the middle, and Colombia in the south.

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