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| Oriani, A. | |
| Le linci del Caucaso e dell' Asia Occidentale | |
| 2000 Atti della Societ… Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (141): 51-64 | |
Caucasian and Western Asian lynxes. Starting from the analysis of a lynx skin from Northern Syria and from its comparison with skins and descriptions of lynxes from different areas, both Caucasian and Middle Eastern, we critically considered the few works on the distribution and morphology of Caucasian and Western Asian lynxes. Besides we hypotized the stages of the spreading of this species on the basis of what already ascertained about the European Pleistocene. Therefore we concluded that in Southern Turkey, Syria and Northern Iraq we can suppose the presence of a subspecies of _Lynx pardina _(Temminck, 1827), temporally called _okeni _ssp.n.. |
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