Panthera species
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Genus Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the lion, tiger, jaguar, and leopard. The genus comprises about half of the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this family.
(Extinct species and subspecies are indicated with the symbol †)
- Subfamily Pantherinae
- Genus Panthera
- Panthera combaszoe (a primitive panthera) †
- Panthera crassidens (a primitive leopard) †
- Panthera gombaszoegensis (European jaguar) †
- Panthera leo (Lion)
- Panthera leo atrox - American Lion or North American cave lion †
- Panthera leo azandica - North East Congo lion
- Panthera leo bleyenberghi - Katanga lion or Southwest African lion
- Panthera leo europaea - European lion †
- Panthera leo fossilis - Early Middle Pleistocene European cave lion †
- Panthera leo hollisteri - Congo lion
- Panthera leo krugeri - South African lion or Southeast African lion
- Panthera leo leo - Barbary lion †
- Panthera leo melanochaita - Cape lion †
- Panthera leo massaicus - Masai lion
- Panthera leo nubica - East African lion
- Panthera leo persica - Asiatic lion
- Panthera leo roosevelti - Abyssinian lion
- Panthera leo sinhaleyus - Sri Lanka lion or Ceylon lion. †
- Panthera leo somaliensis - Somali lion
- Panthera leo spelaea - Eurasian cave lion †
- Panthera leo senegalensis - West African lion, or Senegal lion
- Panthera leo vereshchagini - East Siberian and Beringian cave lion †
- Panthera leo verneyi - Kalahari lion
- Panthera onca (Jaguar)
- Panthera palaeosinensis (Pleistocene Chinese tiger/leopard) †
- Panthera pardoides (a primitive leopard) †
- Panthera pardus (Leopard)
- Panthera pardus adersi (Zanzibar Leopard)
- Panthera pardus delacouri (Indo-Chinese Leopard)
- Panthera pardus fusca (Indian Leopard)
- Panthera pardus jarvesi (Judean Desert Leopard)
- Panthera pardus japonensis (North China Leopard)
- Panthera pardus jarvisi (Sinai Leopard)
- Panthera pardus kotiya (Sri Lanka Leopard)
- Panthera pardus melas (Java Leopard)
- Panthera pardus nimr (Arabian leopard)
- Panthera pardus nimr (South Arabian Leopard)
- Panthera pardus orientalis (Amur Leopard)
- Panthera pardus panthera (Barbary Leopard)
- Panthera pardus pardus (African Leopard)
- Panthera pardus saxicolor (Persian Leopard)
- Panthera pardus sickenbergi (European leopard} †
- Panthera pardus tulliana (Anatolian Leopard)
- Panthera schaubi (a short-faced leopard) †
- Panthera schreuderi (a prehistoric tiger) †
- Panthera tigris (Tiger)
- Panthera tigris altaica (Amur Tiger or Siberian Tiger)
- Panthera tigris amoyensis (South China Tiger)
- Panthera tigris balica (Balinese Tiger) †
- Panthera tigris corbetti (Indochinese Tiger)
- Panthera tigris jacksoni (Malayan Tiger)
- Panthera tigris sondaica (Javan Tiger) †
- Panthera tigris sumatrae (Sumatran Tiger)
- Panthera tigris tigris (Bengal Tiger)
- Panthera tigris trinilensis (Trinil Tiger) †
- Panthera tigris virgata (Caspian Tiger) †
- Panthera toscana (Tuscany lion or Tuscany jaguar) † - probably junior synonym of European Jaguar
- Panthera youngi (a prehistoric Chinese lion-like cat) †
- Genus Panthera
The animal known as a black panther is merely a mutated melanistic gene of leopard and jaguar where the gene that controls the spots has mutated so the creature appears all black.
