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
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Trinomial name | |
Lynx lynx wrangeli (
Ognev, 1928)
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Synonyms | |
Lynx lynx cervaria |
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, 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]