| South American cougar |
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| Cougar at Rio Doce State Park, Brazil |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Mammalia |
| Order: |
Carnivora |
| Suborder: |
Feliformia |
| Family: |
Felidae |
| Subfamily: |
Felinae |
| Genus: |
Puma |
| Species: |
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| Subspecies: |
P. c. concolor |
| Trinomial name |
Puma concolor concolor
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| 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)
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The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion or puma, is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It is the nominate subspecies.