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10 summaries in Taxonomy & Systematics on clouded-leopard
Geographical variation in the clouded leopard reveals two species
PaperThis morphological companion to the molecular split examined pelage and skull characters across clouded leopards and found that Sunda island animals differ consistently from mainland ones. The authors…
Kitchener AC, Beaumont MA, Richardson D · Current Biology · 2006
Molecular evidence for species-level distinctions in clouded leopards
PaperThis study used multiple genetic markers to compare mainland and Sunda island clouded leopards and found divergence comparable to that between well-recognized cat species. The authors showed that clou…
Buckley-Beason VA, Johnson WE, Nash WG, et al. · Current Biology · 2006
Phylogeny of the great cats with fossil taxa and missing characters
PaperThis morphological study reconstructed relationships among the pantherine cats while explicitly incorporating fossil taxa and testing how missing data affect tree inference. Working from cranial and s…
Christiansen P · Cladistics · 2008
Research overview: conservation consequences of the clouded leopard split
OverviewRecognizing two clouded leopard species reshaped conservation planning across Southeast Asia. This overview explains how the split meant that the Sunda clouded leopard, confined to Borneo and Sumatra,…
Research overview: cranial differences in clouded leopards
OverviewClouded leopards have remarkable skulls and the longest canine teeth relative to body size of any living cat, and cranial characters contributed to recognizing two species. This overview discusses how…
Research overview: pelage differences between clouded leopard species
OverviewCoat pattern played a central role in confirming the clouded leopard split. This overview describes the diagnostic pelage differences: Sunda clouded leopards tend to have smaller, darker cloud marking…
Research overview: subspecies of the Sunda clouded leopard
OverviewAfter the Sunda clouded leopard, Neofelis diardi, was recognized as a species, attention turned to whether its Bornean and Sumatran populations are themselves distinct. This overview reviews studies s…
Research overview: the phylogenetic position of clouded leopards in Panthera
OverviewClouded leopards occupy a pivotal position as the sister group to the other big cats within the subfamily Pantherinae. This overview explains how molecular phylogenies consistently place the genus Neo…
Research overview: the split of mainland and Sunda clouded leopards
OverviewOne of the clearest recent felid species splits separated the clouded leopard into two species. This overview explains how parallel molecular and morphological studies in 2006 revealed that clouded le…
Supermatrix and species-tree methods resolve relationships within Panthera
PaperRelationships among the big cats long resisted resolution because of short internal branches and conflicting markers. This study assembled a large multi-gene dataset and applied both concatenated supe…
Davis BW, Li G, Murphy WJ · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010