Uncia uncia (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 : 299

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scientific name	Uncia uncia (Schreber, 1775)
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Uncia uncia (Schreber, 1775) View in CoL . Die Säugethiere, 2(14):pl. 100 (1775]; text, 3(22):386-7[1777].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Barbarey, Persien, Ostindien, und China ", restricted by Pocock (19306:332) to "Altai Mountains". Ognev (1962c:221) disagreed and restricted the locality to "Kopet-Dagh Mountains...the southern slopes of these mountains adjacent to Iran " .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, republics of the former USSR.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: irbis Ehrenberg, 1830 ; schneideri Zukowsky, 1950; uncioides Horsfield, 1855.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (19306). Placed in Uncia by Pocock (1930b), Weigel (1961), Kratochvfl (1980c), and Heptner and Naumov (1967). Placed in Uncia and reviewed by Hemmer (1972, Mammalian Species, 20).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Felidae
Genus	Uncia