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 Puma Jardine 1834 Puma Jardine 1834 , Natur. Libr.: 266-267 . Type Species: Felis concolor Linnaeus 1771 Synonyms: Herpailurus Severtzov 1858 . Species and subspecies: 2 species with 14 subspecies: Species Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771) Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. concolor Linnaeus 1771 Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. anthonyi Nelson and Goldman 1931 Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. cabrerae Pocock 1940 Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. costaricensis Merriam 1901 Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. couguar Kerr 1792 Subspecies Puma concolor subsp. puma Molina 1782 Species Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803 ) Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. yagouaroundi É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. ameghinoi Holmberg 1898 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. cacomitli Berlandier 1859 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. eyra G. Fischer 1814 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. fossata Mearns 1901 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. melantho Thomas 1914 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. panamensis J. A. Allen 1904 Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. tolteca Thomas 1898 Discussion: Placed as a subgenus in Felis by McKenna and Bell (1997) who separated yagouaroundi into Felis (Herpailurus) . Salles (1992) , Johnson and O'Brien (1997) , Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) , and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered concolor and yagouaroundi monophyletic, with Acinonyx as the sister group.