Subspecies
Puma concolor couguar (North american mountain lion)
Puma concolor couguar. Photo: (c) Theodore Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar), is the cougar subspecies once commonly found in eastern North America and still prevalent in the western half of the continent.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Family: Felidae (Felids)
- Subfamily: Felinae (Small cats)
- Genus: Puma
- Species: Puma concolor (Mountain lion)
- Subspecies: Puma concolor couguar (North american mountain lion)
- Species: Puma concolor (Mountain lion)
- Genus: Puma
- Subfamily: Felinae (Small cats)
- Family: Felidae (Felids)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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