Sardinian Lynx
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 Former range (in red)
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The Sardinian lynx is an extinct subspecies of the Eurasian lynx that once could be found on the Italian island of Sardinia.
In 1908, Mola described a lynx from Nuoro (Sardinia) as Lynx sardiniae. The length of the Sardinian lynx was 1000 mm; the height 350 mm and the tail 330 mm. The cheeks were distinctly whiskered and the ears were tuffed. The back was reddish with the dorsal area almost forming a band. The sides were reddish grey. The head, neck and shoulder, and flanks with reddish brown or greyish brown spots. The legs had transverse tawny stripes. The tail had a black tip and three black sub-terminal rings. This subspecies had also a head with black stripe on each side beginning at the mouth and passing back through the eye to the side of the neck. The ears were tawny inside and reddish outside, tending towards black. The underparts and inner surface of the legs are dirty white with a reddish tinge.[1]
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- ^ Miller, G. S. (1912): Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) London. Reprinted 1966.
