| Cheetahs Temporal range: Late Pliocene — Recent | |
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| File:Cheetah Botswana.png | |
| Acinonyx jubatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx Brookes, 1828 |
| Species | |
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| File:Cheetah range.gif | |
| range of the one extant species, A. jubatus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acinomyx de Beaumont, 1964 | |
Acinonyx is a genus of mammals from the family Felidae. It is currently distributed in Africa and Asia, but at one time was also present in Europe. The cheetah is the only living species in the 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 – Cheetah
- Acinonyx kurteni Christiansen and Mazák, 2008[1] † (disputed, possibly fraudulent)[2]
- Acinonyx pardinensis Croizet e Joubert, 1828 †
References[]
- ^ Christiansen, P.; Mazak, J. H. (2009). "A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (2): 512–5. PMC 2626734Freely accessible. PMID 19114651. doi:10.1073/pnas.0810435106.
- ^ Knevitt, Oliver (January 9, 2011). "5 Greatest Palaeontology Fakes Of All Time #5: The Linxia Cheetah". Science 2.0. Retrieved January 2013. Check date values in:
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