Acinonyx
Acinonyx is a genus o mammals frae the faimily Felidae.
The "Scots" that wis uised in this airticle wis written bi a body that haesna a guid grip on the leid. Please mak this airticle mair better gin ye can. |
It is currently distributit in Africae an Asie, but at ane time wis present in Europe an aa. The cheetah is the anly livin species in the genus. Wozencraft (1993) put the genus Acinonyx in thair ain monophyletic subfaimily, Acinonychinae. Salles (1992), Johnson & O'Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), an Mattern an McLennan (2000) consider Acinonyx, Puma concolor, an Puma (= Herpailurus) yagouaroundi as representatives o closely relatit sister groups.
| Acinonyx | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Acinonyx jubatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Felidae |
| Subfaimily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx Brookes, 1828 |
| Species | |
| See text | |
 | |
| range o the ane extant species, A. jubatus | |
| Synonyms | |
| Acinomyx de Beaumont, 1964 | |
Species
- Acinonyx aicha Geraads, 1997 †
- Acinonyx intermedius Thenius, 1954 †
- Acinonyx jubatus Schreber, 1775 – cheetah
- "Acinonyx kurteni" Christiansen and Mazák, 2008 † (na langer a valid species, probably fraudulent)
- Acinonyx pardinensis Croizet e Joubert, 1828 - Giant cheetah †
References
Freemit airtins
Media relatit tae Acinonyx at Wiki Commons
Data relatit tae Acinonyx at Wikispecies- Acinonyx at the Encyclopedia o Life
 | This felid-relatit airticle is a stub. Ye can help Wikipaedia bi expandin it. |
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Scots article Acinonyx, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available unner CC BY-SA 4.0 unless itherwise notit. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Scots (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.