Scientists classify the biological world into a series of categories beginning with the broadest and ending with the most specific.

Charles Barney Cory with a female panther he shot near Lake Worth in 1896. The subspecies name coryi is in honor of Cory.
Panther Past...

"The Florida Panther is still not uncommon in the more unsettled portions of the State. It is somewhat smaller and more rufous in color than its Northern brethren, and its feet are smaller in proportion to the size of the animal. As a rule they move about a great deal, often traveling twenty miles or more in a night."

- Charles Barney Cory,
Hunting and Fishing in Florida, 1896

This classification is called taxonomy. The Florida panther is classified like this:

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
SubphylumVertebrata
ClassMammalia
OrderCarnivora
FamilyFelidae
SubfamilyFelinae
GenusPuma
Speciesconcolor
Subspeciescoryi
The full scientific name of the Florida panther is Puma concolor coryi (Wilson and Reeder 1993)
panther drawing

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