Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792

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

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Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792 View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Canada "; listed in Miller (1912b) as "Eastern Canada " .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone of North America, south to C Utah and SW Colorado, NE Nebraska, S Indiana, and West Virginia ( USA).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: mollipilosus Stone, 1900; subsolanus Bangs, 1897.

COMMENTS: Considered distinct from L. lynx by Kurtén and Anderson (1980), Matyushkin (1979), Werdelin (1981), and Garcfa-Perea (1992). Weigel (1961) and Tumlison (1987) considered these taxa conspecific.