Nepal leopard
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| Subspecies: | P. p. pernigra
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| Panthera pardus pernigra (Hodgson, 1863)
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The Nepal leopard (Panthera pardus pernigra) was proposed as a leopard subspecies native to Sikkim and Nepal by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1863. Hodgson sent five skins collected in this region to the British Museum, out of which three were black.[1][2]
Since it is geographically not isolated from leopard populations on the Indian subcontinent, it has been subsumed to P. p. fusca in 1996.[3]
References
- ^ Hodgson, B. H. (1863). Catalogue of the Specimens and Drawings of Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes of Nepal and Tibet. British Museum, London.
- ^ Pocock, R. I. (1930). The Panthers and Ounces of Asia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 34(2): 307–336.
- ^ Miththapala, S.; Seidensticker, J.; O'Brien, S. J. (1996). "Phylogeographic Subspecies Recognition in Leopards (P. pardus): Molecular Genetic Variation". Conservation Biology. 10 (4): 1115–1132. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10041115.x.
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