Carpathian lynx
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| Carpathian lynx | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Lynx |
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| Subspecies: | L. l. carpathicus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Lynx lynx carpathicus (Kratochvil & Stollmann, 1963)
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The Carpathian lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus) is a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx found in the Carpathian Basin of Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. In contrast to the expanding populations of many large carnivores in Europe, the Carpathian lynx population in the Western Carpathians appears unable to spread beyond the western boundaries of its current range, at the Czech-Slovak border. Persistent low density, high turnover of residents, and female philopatry may be responsible for hindering its range expansion, but stressors such as poaching and increasing landscape fragmentation in the Western Carpathians have exacerbated this issue.[1] In addition, due to reintroduction in the 1970s, there is an endangered population in the territories of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia.[2]
References
- ^ Krojerová-Prokešová, J.; Turbaková, B.; Jelenčič, M.; Bojda, M.; Kutal, M.; Skrbinšek, T.; Koubek, P.; Bryja, J. (2019). "Genetic constraints of population expansion of the Carpathian lynx at the western edge of its native distribution range in Central Europe". Heredity. 122: 785–799. doi:10.1038/s41437-018-0167-x.
- ^ "Risom v Sloveniji in na Hrvaškem se obeta svetlejša prihodnost" [Brighter Future Expected for Lynx of Slovenia and Croatia]. Delo.si (in Slovenian). 14 April 2017.
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