Felis canadensis Kerr 1792

• Main Authors: LAvoiE, MAXiME, Renard, AURéLiE, LARivièRE, Serge
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Carnivora; Felidae; Felis; Felis canadensis; Barrow; Newfoundland; Alaska; Lynx
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4616783; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BD6D8798DF64FFBF19601D7278DB442E

Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792 Canadian Lynx F [ elis ]. Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792:157. Type locality “ Canada;” restricted to “Eastern Canada [= Quebec]” by Miller (1912:119). Felis canadensis : É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803:120. Name combination. Lynx canadensis : Rafinesque, 1817:46. First use of current name combination. Felis borealis : Temminck, 1824:109. Name combination; part, not Felis borealis Thunberg, 1798. Lynx borealis canadensis : True, 1885:611. Name combination. Lynx subsolanus Bangs, 1897:49. Type locality “Codroy, Newfoundland.” Lynx canadensis mollipilosus Stone, 1900:48. Type locality “Wainwright Inlet, Pt. Barrow, Alaska.” [ Lynx canadensis ] subsolanus : Elliot, 1901:296. Name combination. Felis ( Lynx ) lynx canadensis : Kurtén and Rausch, 1959:44. Name combination. CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Carnivora, suborder Feliformia, family Felidae, subfamily Felinae, genus Lynx . Lynx currently contains four recognized species ( canadensis , lynx , pardinus , and rufus —Sunquist and Sunquist 2009; Kitchner 2017); a generic synonymy and key to the species of Lynx is provided in Larivière and Walton (1997). Three subspecies were recognized by Wozencraft (2005); however, Sunquist and Sunquist (2009) and Banfield (1974) recognized only two ( canadensis and subsolanus ). More recently, L . canadensis has been presented as monotypic by Kitchner et al. (2017) who interpreted the level of morphologic and genetic differences between the taxa as insufficient to support subspecific status for subsolanus and mollipilosus . The following three subspecies are those presented by Wozencraft (2005): L. c. canadensis Kerr, 1792:157. See above. L. c. mollipilosus Stone, 1900:48. See above. L. c. subsolanus Bangs, 1897:49. See above. NOMENCLATURAL NOTES. Since Kerr’s 1792 description of Lynx canadensis its taxonomic placement has been questioned. During the 1970s through the 1990s, some researchers (Van Gelder 1977; Corbet 1978; Hemmer 1978; McKenna and Bell 1997; Groves 1982; McCord and Cardoza 1982; Tumlison 1987) ...