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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Panthera pardus
- Image
- Leopard in Tadoba TR.jpg
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- taxon name
- Panthera pardus fusca
- Commons category
- Panthera pardus fusca
- taxon rank
- subspecies
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- Panthera pardus fusca
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Encyclopedic overview
The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) is a subspecies of the leopard (P. pardus). It is widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent. It is threatened by illegal trade of skins and body parts, and persecution due to human-leopard conflict and retaliation for livestock depredation.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indian leopard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.