South American cougar

South American cougar
	Female cougar in Torres del Paine, Chile
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) (Brazilian, Argentinian, Colombian and Peruvian population)
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) (Chilean population)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Felidae
Genus:	Puma
Species:	P. concolor
Subspecies:	P. c. concolor
Trinomial name
	Puma concolor concolor; (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms
	P. c. anthonyi (Nelson and Goldman, 1931); P. c. acrocodia (Goldman, 1943); P. c. araucanus (Osgood, 1943); P. c. bangsi (Merriam, 1901); P. c. borbensis (Nelson and Goldman, 1933); P. c. cabrerae (Pocock, 1940); P. c. capricornensis (Goldman, 1946); P. c. greeni (Nelson and Goldman, 1931); P. c. hudsonii (Marcelli, 1922; Cabrera, 1958); P. c. incarum (Nelson and Goldman, 1929); P. c. nigra (Jardine, 1834); P. c. osgoodi (Nelson and Goldman, 1929); P. c. patagonica (Merriam, 1901); P. c. pearsoni (Thomas, 1901; Trouessart, 1904); P. c. puma (Marcelli, 1922; Molina, 1782; Trouessart, 1904); P. c. soasoaranna (Lesson, 1842); P. c. sussuarana; P. c. soderstromii (Lönnberg, 1913); P. c. suçuaçuara (Liais, 1872); P. c. wavula (Lesson, 1842);

The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion or puma, is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It is the nominate subspecies.