Acinonyx
| Acinonyx Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Recent |
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| Acinonyx jubatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx Brookes, 1828 |
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| range of the one extant species, A. jubatus | |
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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 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.
[edit] 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 †
[edit] 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.0810435106. PMC 2626734. PMID 19114651. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2626734.
- ^ http://www.science20.com/between_death_and_data/5_greatest_palaeontology_fakes_all_time_5_linxia_cheetah
[edit] External links
Media related to Acinonyx at Wikimedia Commons 
Data related to Acinonyx at Wikispecies
- Acinonyx at the Encyclopedia of Life
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