JAGUAR 



Panthera onca Linnaeus 



KINGDOM Animalia 



CLASS Mammalia 



ORDER Carnivora 



FAMILY Felidae 



OTHER COMMON 



NAMES spotted king cat, 



American tiger, "el tigre" 



DATE 



Entered into SWIS to be determined 



Updates May 1978. 



LEGAL STATUS 



Federal: Endangered (non-U. S. wild popula- 

 tions) (35 FR 18320, 2 December 

 1970); (44 FR 43705, 25 July 1979). 

 Threatened (U.S. captive population) 

 (42 FR 28956, 1 June 1977). 



States: Endangered Arizona, New Mexico (ex- 

 tirpated), Texas. 



REASONS FOR CURRENT STATUS 



Deliberate persecution, excessive and illegal 

 hunting, overexploitation by fur industry, and 

 predator control activities have extirpated jaguars 

 from much of their original range and seriously 

 reduced numbers in most of the rest (lUCN 1972, 

 Culbertson and Schmidly 1974, Davis 1974). 

 Timber and brush clearing have degraded and des- 

 troyed habitat to the point where reestablishment 

 of populations in the northern part of the range is 

 doubtful (Davis 1974, Brovmlee 1978). Mining 

 and oil exploration and development have made 

 formerly remote Central and South American 

 areas more accessible to human activity and sub- 

 sequent illegal killings of jaguars (lUCN 1972). 



PRIORITY INDEX 



None designated. 



