Southeast African cheetah

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Southeast African cheetah
A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Felinae
Genus: Acinonyx
Species:
Subspecies:
A. j. jubatus
Trinomial name
Acinonyx jubatus jubatus
(Schreber, 1775)
A. j. jubatus range (blue)
Synonyms

A. j. guttata (Hermann, 1804)
A. j. fearsoni (Smith, 1834)
A. j. fearonis (Fitzinger, 1869)
A. j. lanea (Sclater, 1877)
A. j. obergi (Hilzheimer, 1913)
A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913)
A. j. raineyi (Heller, 1913)
A. j. velox (Heller, 1913)
A. j. rex (Pocock, 1927)

The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate subspecies of cheetah native to Southern Africa. It is the most abundant subspecies estimated at more than 6,000 individuals in the wild. Since 1990 and onwards, the population was estimated at approximately 2,500 individuals in Namibia, until 2015, the cheetah population has been increased to more than 3,500 in the country.[1]

The Southeast African Cheetah is the closest relative to the two other distinct subspecies, the Asiatic Cheetahs and the Northeast African Cheetah.[2][3]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Namibia: Cheetah Conservation Fund Celebrates 25 Years". allAfrica.com. 20 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  2. Ella Davies (24 January 2011). "Iran's endangered cheetahs are a unique subspecies". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  3. Three distinct cheetah populations, but Iran's on the brink, 18 January 2011, retrieved 14 January 2016

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