![]() Since leopard populations in Nepal, Sikkim and Kashmir are not geographically isolated from leopard populations in the Indian subcontinent, they were subsumed to P. fusca skins by longer hair and a more greyish colour. Panthera pardus millardi proposed by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1930 was a single leopard skin and skull from Kashmir. He mentioned Sikkim and Nepal as habitat. Leopardus perniger proposed by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1863 were five leopard skins from Nepal, out of which three were black. Taxonomy įelis fusca was the scientific name proposed by Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer in 1794 who described a black leopard from Bengal that was on display at the Tower of London. ![]() ![]() 7,910 individuals were estimated in surveyed areas and a national total of 12,000–14,000 speculated. In 2014, a national census of leopards around tiger habitats was carried out in India except the northeast. The Indian leopard is one of the big cats occurring on the Indian subcontinent, along with the Asiatic lion, Bengal tiger, snow leopard and clouded leopard. The species Panthera pardus is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because populations have declined following habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching for the illegal trade of skins and body parts, and persecution due to conflict situations. The Indian leopard ( Panthera pardus fusca) is a leopard subspecies widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
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