page_title: Eurasian lynx
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Eurasian lynx / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Eurasian Lynx of Scandinavian type (Lynx lynx lynx) Photo: ToB, June 26th 2003
context_page_description: The Eurasian lynx is a medium-sized wild cat occurring from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. It inhabits temperate and boreal forests up to an altitude of 5,500 m.
  Because of its wide distribution, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008. It is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching and depletion of prey. The Eurasian lynx population in Europe is estimated at comprising maximum 10,000 individuals and is considered stable.
context_section_description: Felis lynx was the scientific name used in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in his work Systema Naturae.
  In the 19th and 20th centuries, the following Eurasian lynx subspecies were proposed:
  Northern lynx (L. l. lynx) Linnaeus, 1758: Fennoscandia, Baltic states, Poland, Belarus, European part of eastern, western, northern, central part of Russia, Ural Mountains, Western Siberia east to the Yenisei river
  Turkestan lynx (L. l. isabellinus) Blyth, 1847: Central Asia
  Caucasian lynx (L. l. dinniki) Satunin, 1915: Caucasus
  Siberian lynx (L. l. wrangeli) Ognew, 1928: Eastern Siberia
  Balkan lynx (L. l. balcanicus) Bures, 1941: Balkans
  Carpathian lynx (L. l. carpathicus) Kratochvil & Stollmann, 1963: Carpathian Mountains, Central Europe
  The following  subspecies were also described, but are now not considered valid:
  Altai lynx (L. l. wardi) Lydekker, 1904: Altai Mountains
  Baikal lynx (L. l. kozlovi) Fetisov, 1950: Central Siberia
  Amur lynx (L. l. stroganovi) Heptner, 1969: Amur region
  The Sardinian lynx (L. l. sardiniae) Mola, 1908 was a misidentified Sardinian wild cat.
caption: Northern lynx (Lynx lynx lynx), mounted
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