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Subspecies of carnivore From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Siberian lynx (Lynx lynx wrangeli), also known as the East Siberian lynx, is a subspecies of Eurasian lynx living in the Russian Far East, North Korea, Mongolia, and China (Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia). It lives in the Stanovoy Range and east of the Yenisei River. There were 5,890 mature individuals in the Russian Far East as of 2013.[1] Prey include the Siberian roe deer.[2] The Siberian lynx is the second most common subspecies of the Eurasian lynx. According to a study done on the mortality of Eurasian lynx, the Siberian lynx lives to an average age of 15 years.[3]
Siberian lynx | |
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A Siberian lynx at Dartmoor Zoological Park, England. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Lynx |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | L. l. wrangeli |
Trinomial name | |
Lynx lynx wrangeli (Ognev, 1928) | |
Synonyms | |
Lynx lynx cervaria |
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