South American cougar

South American cougar
	Cougar at Rio Doce State Park, Brazil
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) (Brazilian, Argentinian, Colombian and Peruvian population)
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) (Chilean population)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Puma
Species:	P. concolor
Subspecies:	P. c. concolor
Trinomial name
	Puma concolor concolor; (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms
	P. c. anthonyi (Nelson and Goldman, 1931); P. c. acrocodia (Goldman, 1943); P. c. araucanus (Osgood, 1943); P. c. bangsi (Merriam, 1901); P. c. borbensis (Nelson and Goldman, 1933); P. c. cabrerae (Pocock, 1940); P. c. capricornensis (Goldman, 1946); P. c. greeni (Nelson and Goldman, 1931); P. c. hudsonii (Marcelli, 1922; Cabrera, 1958); P. c. incarum (Nelson and Goldman, 1929); P. c. nigra (Jardine, 1834); P. c. osgoodi (Nelson and Goldman, 1929); P. c. patagonica (Merriam, 1901); P. c. pearsoni (Thomas, 1901; Trouessart, 1904); P. c. puma (Marcelli, 1922; Molina, 1782; Trouessart, 1904); P. c. soasoaranna (Lesson, 1842); P. c. sussuarana; P. c. soderstromii (Lönnberg, 1913); P. c. suçuaçuara (Liais, 1872); P. c. wavula (Lesson, 1842);

The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion^[4] or puma,^[5] is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.^[6]

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^ "Puma concolor". iucnredlist.org.
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^ Strong, Mary (2012-05-01). "2: Andean Thinking". Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present. Austin, Texas, the USA: The University of Texas Press. pp. 67–91. ISBN 978-0-2927-3571-2.
^ Lee, Jane J. (2014-12-06), Andean Pumas Bring National Park in Argentina Back to Life, The National Geographic, archived from the original on November 26, 2020, retrieved 2020-03-31
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South American cougar

Cougar at Rio Doce State Park, Brazil
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)^[1] (Brazilian, Argentinian, Colombian and Peruvian population)
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[2] (Chilean population)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Puma
Species:	P. concolor
Subspecies:	P. c. concolor
Trinomial name
*Puma concolor concolor* (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms^[3]
P. c. anthonyi (Nelson and Goldman, 1931) P. c. acrocodia (Goldman, 1943) P. c. araucanus (Osgood, 1943) P. c. bangsi (Merriam, 1901) P. c. borbensis (Nelson and Goldman, 1933) P. c. cabrerae (Pocock, 1940) P. c. capricornensis (Goldman, 1946) P. c. greeni (Nelson and Goldman, 1931) P. c. hudsonii (Marcelli, 1922; Cabrera, 1958) P. c. incarum (Nelson and Goldman, 1929) P. c. nigra (Jardine, 1834) P. c. osgoodi (Nelson and Goldman, 1929) P. c. patagonica (Merriam, 1901) P. c. pearsoni (Thomas, 1901; Trouessart, 1904) P. c. puma (Marcelli, 1922; Molina, 1782; Trouessart, 1904) P. c. soasoaranna (Lesson, 1842) P. c. sussuarana P. c. soderstromii (Lönnberg, 1913) P. c. suçuaçuara (Liais, 1872) P. c. wavula (Lesson, 1842)