Panthera

Panthera; Temporal range: Late Miocene – Present
	From top to bottom: tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Pantherinae
Genus:	Panthera; Oken, 1816
Type species
	Panthera pardus; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	†Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853) ; †Panthera balamoides Stinnesbeck et al., 2019 ; †Panthera blytheae Tseng et al., 2014 ; †Panthera dhokpathanensis Bakr, 1986 ; †Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906) ; †Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938) ; Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) ; †Panthera palaeosinensis (Zdansky, 1924) ; Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758) ; †Panthera principialis Hemmer, 2023 ; †Panthera shawi (Broom, 1948) ; †Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) ; Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775) ; †Panthera youngi Pei, 1934 ; †Panthera zdanskyi Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011 ;
Synonyms
	About 10 Jaguarius Severtzov, 1858 ; Leo Frisch, 1775 ; Leonina Greve, 1894 ; Leoninae Wagner, 1841 ; Pardotigris Kretzoi, 1929 ; Pardus Fitzinger, 1868 ; Tigrina Greve, 1894 ; Tigrinae Wagner, 1841 ; Tigris Gray, 1843 ; Tigris Frisch, 1775 ;

Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae that was named and described by Lorenz Oken in 1816 who placed all the spotted cats in this group. Reginald Innes Pocock revised the classification of this genus in 1916 as comprising the tiger (P. tigris), lion (P. leo), jaguar (P. onca), and leopard (P. pardus) on the basis of common features of their skulls. Results of genetic analysis indicate that the snow leopard (formerly Uncia uncia) also belongs to the genus Panthera (P. uncia), a classification that was accepted by IUCN Red List assessors in 2008.

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