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South American cougar
Subspecies of carnivore / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion[4] or puma,[5] is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.[6]
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South American cougar | |
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Cougar at Rio Doce State Park, Brazil | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Puma |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. c. concolor |
Trinomial name | |
Puma concolor concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) | |
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