Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber, 1775)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 288

Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber, 1775) . Die Säugethiere, 2(15):pl. 105 (1775); text 3(22):392[1777).

TYPE LOCALITY: "südliche Afrika; man bekömmt die Felle vom Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung" [ South Africa, Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope) .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Now restricted to N Iran and Subsaharan Africa, except rain forest and some areas in the south.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as A. j. venaticus , otherwise Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: fearonii Smith, 1834 ; fearonis Fitzinger, 1869; guttata Hermann, 1804 ; hecki Hilzheimer, 1913 ; lanea Sclater, 1877 ; megabalica Heuglin, 1863 ; ngorongorensis Hilzheimer, 1913; obergi Hilzheimer, 1913; raddei Hilzheimer, 1913; raineyi Heller, 1913; rex Pocock, 1927 ; senegalensis Blainville, 1843 ; soemmeringii Fitzinger, 1855; velox Heller, 1913 ; venatica Griffith, 1821 ; venator Brookes, 1828 ; wagneri Hilzheimer, 1913.

COMMENTS: Placed in Acinonyx by Pocock (1917), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Krâl and Zima (1980), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).