Felis venatica was proposed by Edward Griffith in 1821 and based on a sketch of a maneless cheetah from India.[13] Griffith’s description was published in Le Règne Animal with the help of Griffith’s assistant Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827.[14]
Acinonyx raddei was proposed by Max Hilzheimer in 1913 for the cheetah population in Central Asia, the Trans-Caspian cheetah. Hilzheimer’s type specimen originated in Merv, Turkmenistan.[15]

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