| Acinonyx Fossil range: Late Pliocene - Recent |
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| Acinonyx jubatus | |
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| Domain: | Eukarya |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx Brookes, 1828 |
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Acinomyx de Beaumont, 1964 |
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Acinonyx is a genus of mammals from the family Felidae. It is currently distributed in Africa and Asia, but used to be present in Europe too. The Cheetah is the only non-extinct species in the Acinonyx genus. Wozencraft (1993) put the genus Acinonyx in their own monophyletic subfamily, Acinonychinae. Salles (1992), Johnson & O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) consider Acinonyx, Puma concolor, and Puma (= Herpailurus) yagouaroundi as representatives of closely related sister groups.
Species
- Acinonyx aicha Geraads, 1997 †
- Acinonyx intermedius Thenius, 1954 †
- Acinonyx jubatus Schreber, 1775 - Common name: Cheetah
- Acinonyx kurteni Christiansen and Mazák, 2008[1] †
- Acinonyx pardinensis Croizet e Joubert, 1928 †
References
- ^ Christiansen, J., and J.H. Mazák. 2008. A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Published online before print December 29, 2008, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0810435106.
External links
- Acinonyx at the Encyclopedia of Life
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