Big Cats Species List

All Wild Cat Lists.

Big cats species list. For some species we have huge numbers of records for others we have few. But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big. Tiger Panthera tigris Lion Panthera leo Jaguar Panthera onca Leopard Panthera pardus Snow leopard Panthera uncia Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi Clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa.

The weight data available is vary variable. Unfortunately amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats. Lion tiger leopard and jaguar all of which belong to the genus Panthera says Stephen Mills.

List by Common Name. Other people consider all species within the subfamily Pantherinae to be big cats. There is also a broader more common definition of big cats that includes cheetahs clouded leopards snow leopards and mountain lions cougars.

Some people take the view that size is all so include some additional large cats such as cheetah cougar and lynx as a type of big cat. Wild Cats of Africa. The lion has a short sandy-colored coat.

The leopard is an elegant and powerful endangered cat. A list of big cats using this definition is shown below. There are 38 species of cats on the planet.

The term big cats generally refers to lions tigers leopards and jaguars the four wild cats that roar. 41 rows List by Common Name. 11 rows This list of largest cats shows the 10 largest extant Felidae species ordered by.