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Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43. TYPE LOCALITY: "Europae sylvis and desertis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911a: 136) to "Wennersborg, S. Sweden ". DISTRIBUTION: Taiga forests from Scandinavia through E Siberia and Sakhalin; from China (Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, and Sichuan) through montane Europe (formerly widespread, now restricted to Balkans, Carpathians, Pyreneans [French side], and Alps; reintroduced to French Vosges and Jura Mt., Swiss Alps, Austria, and Yugoslavia). STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. SYNONYMS: borealis Thunberg, 1798; carpathicus Kratochvfl and Stollmann, 1963; cervaria Temminck, 1824; dinniki Satunin, 1915; isabellina Blyth, 1847; kamensis Satunin, 1904; kozlovi Fetisov, 1950; lupulinus Thunberg, 1825; lyncula Nilsson, 1820; martinoi Mirfc, 1978; neglectus Stroganov, 1962; orientalis Satunin, 1905; stroganovi Heptner, 1969; tibetanus Gray, 1863; vulgaris Kerr, 1792; vulpinus Thunberg, 1825; wardi Lydekker, 1904; wrangeli Ognev, 1928. COMMENTS: Does not include L. canadensis or L. pardina, following Matyushkin (1979), Garcfa-Perea (1992), and Werdelin (1981). Includes isabellina (Gao, in Gao, 1987:336). Reviewed by Tumlison (1987, Mammalian Species, 269, as Felis lynx).

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 293, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191