Pantherinae

Taxobox
name = PantherinaeMSW3 Wozencraft | pages = 545-548]
fossil_range = Late Miocene to Recent

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image_caption = Jaguar ("Panthera onca")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Felidae
subfamilia = Pantherinae
subfamilia_authority = Pocock, 1917
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Neofelis"
"Panthera"
"Uncia"

Pantherinae is the subfamily of the family Felidae which includes the genera "Panthera", "Uncia" and "Neofelis". The divergence of Pantherinae from Felinae has been ranked between six and ten Macite journal | author = Johnson, W.E., Eizirik, E., Pecon-Slattery, J., Murphy, W.J., Antunes, A., Teeling, E. & O'Brien, S.J. | year = 2006 | url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5757/73 | title = The Late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: A genetic assessment | journal = Science | volume = 311 | pages = 73–77 | pmid = 16400146 | doi = 10.1126/science.1122277 | format = abstract] . Recent DNA evidence suggests "Uncia uncia" or the Snow Leopard is basal to the entire Pantherinae and should be renamed "Panthera uncia". There is also evidence of distinct markers for the mitochondrial genome for Felidae. [ Molecular Biology Reports, Publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0301-4851 (Print) 1573-4978 (Online), DOI 10.1007/s11033-008-9257-9] [http://www.springerlink.com/content/m38650h4v6mn2414/] [Phylogenetic relationships within mammalian order Carnivora indicated by sequences of two nuclear DNA genes. Li Yua,b,c, Qing-wei Lid, O.A. Rydere, Ya-ping Zhanga,b. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33 (2004) 694–705] [http://www.ymf.ynu.edu.cn/SCI/2004SCI/2004/Li%20Yu(2004-2M.P.E).pdf]

pecies

* Subfamily Pantherinaecite journal | author = Kitchener, A., "et al." | title = Geographical Variation in the Clouded Leopard, "Neofelis nebulosa", Reveals Two Species | journal = Current Biology | volume = 16 | issue = 23 | pages = 2377–2383 | date = 2006-12-05 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2006.10.066]
** Genus "Panthera"
*** Lion ("P. leo")
*** Jaguar ("P. onca")
*** Leopard ("P. pardus")
*** Tiger ("P. tigris")
** Genus "Neofelis"
*** Clouded Leopard ("N. nebulosa")
*** Bornean Clouded Leopard ("N. diardi")
** Genus "Uncia"
*** Snow Leopard ("U. uncia") or ("P. Uncia")

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