Arabian leopard
The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is the smallest leopard subspecies. It was described in 1830 and is native to the Arabian Peninsula, where it was widely distributed in rugged hilly and montane terrain until the late 1970s. Today, the population is severely fragmented and thought to decline continuously, with an estimated 45–200 individuals as of 2008 in three isolated subpopulations that are restricted to western Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen.
| Arabian leopard | |
|---|---|
| Leopard at Ein Gedi, Israel | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | P. p. nimr |
| Trinomial name | |
| Panthera pardus nimr | |
| Distribution of the Arabian leopard | |
| Synonyms | |
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P. p. jarvisl Pocock, 1932 | |
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