Southeast African cheetah

Southeast African cheetah
	A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Acinonyx
Species:	A. jubatus
Subspecies:	A. j. jubatus
Trinomial name
	Acinonyx jubatus jubatus; (Schreber, 1775)
	A. j. jubatus range (blue)
Synonyms
	A. j. guttata (Hermann, 1804) ; A. j. fearsoni (Smith, 1834) ; A. j. fearonis (Fitzinger, 1869) ; A. j. lanea (Sclater, 1877) ; A. j. obergi (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. raineyi (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. velox (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. rex (Pocock, 1927)

The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate cheetah subspecies native to East and Southern Africa. The Southern African cheetah lives mainly in the lowland areas and deserts of the Kalahari, the savannahs of Okavango Delta, and the grasslands of the Transvaal region in South Africa. In Namibia, cheetahs are mostly found in farmlands. In India, four cheetahs of the subspecies are living in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh after having been introduced there.

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