Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 293

Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Europae sylvis and desertis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911a: 136) to "Wennersborg, S. Sweden " .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga forests from Scandinavia through E Siberia and Sakhalin; from China (Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, and Sichuan) through montane Europe (formerly widespread, now restricted to Balkans, Carpathians, Pyreneans [French side], and Alps; reintroduced to French Vosges and Jura Mt., Swiss Alps, Austria, and Yugoslavia).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: borealis Thunberg, 1798 ; carpathicus Kratochvfl and Stollmann, 1963; cervaria Temminck, 1824; dinniki Satunin, 1915; isabellina Blyth, 1847; kamensis Satunin, 1904; kozlovi Fetisov, 1950; lupulinus Thunberg, 1825; lyncula Nilsson, 1820; martinoi Mirfc, 1978; neglectus Stroganov, 1962; orientalis Satunin, 1905 ; stroganovi Heptner, 1969; tibetanus Gray, 1863; vulgaris Kerr, 1792 ; vulpinus Thunberg, 1825; wardi Lydekker, 1904; wrangeli Ognev, 1928.

COMMENTS: Does not include L. canadensis or L. pardina , following Matyushkin (1979), Garcfa-Perea (1992), and Werdelin (1981). Includes isabellina (Gao, in Gao, 1987:336). Reviewed by Tumlison (1987, Mammalian Species, 269, as Felis lynx ).