Mexico.
*P. o. paraguensis the type specimen was a skull of a male jaguar from Paraguay.
*P. o. arizonensis the type specimen was a skin and skull of a male jaguar from the vicinity of Cibecue, Arizona.
*P. o. veraecrucis the type specimen was a skull of a male jaguar from San Andrés Tuxtla in Mexico.

Reginald Innes Pocock placed the jaguar in the genus Panthera and observed that it shares several