Order Carnivora Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 532 628 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Panthera onca (Linnaeus 1758) [Felis] onca Linnaeus 1758 , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 42 . Type Locality: "America meridionali", fixed by Thomas (1911 a :136) as " Pernambuco " [ Brazil ] . Vernacular Names: Jaguar . Subspecies: : Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. onca Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. arizonensis Goldman 1932 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. centralis Mearns 1901 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. goldmani Mearns 1901 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. hernandesii J. E. Gray 1857 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. palustris Ameghino 1888 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. paraguensis Hollister 1914 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. peruviana de Blainville 1843 Subspecies Panthera onca subsp. veraecruscis Nelson and Goldman 1933 Distribution: Argentina , Belize , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , French Guiana, Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Suriname , Venezuela . Recently extinct in United States , El Salvador , and Uruguay . Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Near Threatened. Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981) , Seymour (1989) and Cabrera (1957) . Revised by Nelson and Goldman (1933 a ) , Pocock (1939 b ) , and Larson (1997) . Placed in Panthera by Pocock (1939 b ) , Weigel (1961) , Hemmer (1978) , Kratochvíl (1982 c ), and Groves (1982 a ) . Reviewed by Seymour (1989) . A multivariate analysis of skull morphology could not discriminate among subspecies ( Larson, 1997 ).