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Panthera onca onca

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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

Panthera onca onca was proposed as a jaguar subspecies by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1939. before later research failed to find evidence for it. Pocock also mentioned other subspecies, such as Panthera onca peruviana, but eventually, due to a lack of evidence, he accepted that Panthera onca peruviana could be the same subspecies as Panthera onca onca. In other words, the taxonomic name "Panthera onca onca" referred to a geographic group, if not subspecies, of jaguars north and west of the Amazon River, and south of Central America, including some Colombian jaguars, which was believed to include another group of jaguars, that is Panthera onca centralis.

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Panthera onca onca Wikipedia