jaguar (Panthera onca)
Felis onca
Date 1809-1845
Source/Photographer Schinz pl. 89
Old Latin name Felis onca
New Latin name Panthera onca
Common name Nederlands: Jaguar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felis_onca_-_1809-1845_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ22100174.tif
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat which is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. |
