Panthera
Temporal range:
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| Clockwise from top-left: tiger, jaguar, leopard, lion
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Mammalia
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| Order:
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Carnivora
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| Family:
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Felidae
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| Subfamily:
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Pantherinae
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| Genus:
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Panthera
Oken, 1816
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| Type species
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Felis pardus
(= Panthera pardus)
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| Species
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- †Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853)
- †Panthera balamoides Stinnesbeck et al., 2019
- †Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906)
- †Panthera gombaszogensis (Kretzoi, 1938)
- Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758)
- †Panthera palaeosinensis (Zdansky, 1924)
- Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- †Panthera principialis Hemmer, 2023
- †Panthera shawi (Broom, 1948)
- †Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810)
- Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775)
- †Panthera youngi Pei, 1934
- †Panthera zdanskyi Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011
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| Synonyms
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- Jaguarius Severtzov, 1858
- Leo Frisch, 1775
- Leonina Greve, 1894
- Leoninae Wagner, 1841
- Pardotigris Kretzoi, 1929
- Pardus Fitzinger, 1868
- Tigrina Greve, 1894
- Tigrinae Wagner, 1841
- Tigris Gray, 1843
- Tigris Frisch, 1775
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Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae. It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger. Numerous extinct species are also named, including the cave lion and American lion.