North American cougar

North American cougar
	A cougar at Wildlife Prairie Park in Illinois
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe) (Western and Central North America)
	; Critically Imperiled (NatureServe) (Puma population)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Puma
Species:	P. concolor
Subspecies:	P. c. couguar
Trinomial name
	Puma concolor couguar; (Kerr, 1792)
Synonyms
	P. c. arundivaga; P. c. aztecus; P. c. browni; P. c. californica; P. c. costaricensis (Merriam, 1901); P. c. floridana; P. c. hippolestes; P. c. improcera; P. c. kaibabensis; P. c. mayensis; P. c. missoulensis; P. c. olympus; P. c. oregonensis; P. c. schorgeri; P. c. stanleyana; P. c. vancouverensis; P. c. youngi;

The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar) is a cougar subspecies in North America. It is the biggest cat in North America (North American jaguars are fairly small), and the second largest cat in the New World. It was once common in eastern North America and is still prevalent in the western half of the continent. This subspecies includes populations in western Canada, the western United States, Florida, Mexico and Central America, and possibly South America northwest of the Andes Mountains. It thus includes the extirpated eastern cougar and extant Florida panther populations.