Southeast African cheetah

Southeast African cheetah
	A cheetah at the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Acinonyx
Species:	A. jubatus
Subspecies:	A. j. jubatus
Trinomial name
	Acinonyx jubatus jubatus; (Schreber, 1775)
	A. j. jubatus range (blue)
Synonyms
	A. j. guttata (Hermann, 1804) ; A. j. fearsoni (Smith, 1834) ; A. j. fearonis (Fitzinger, 1869) ; A. j. lanea (Sclater, 1877) ; A. j. obergi (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913) ; A. j. raineyi (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. velox (Heller, 1913) ; A. j. rex (Pocock, 1927)

The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate subspecies of cheetah native to Southern Africa. It is the most abundant subspecies estimated at more than 6,000 individuals in the wild. Since 1990 and onwards, the population was estimated at approximately 2,500 individuals in Namibia, until 2015, the cheetah population has been increased to more than 3,500 in the country.^[1]

The Southeast African Cheetah is the closest relative to the two other distinct subspecies, the Asiatic Cheetahs and the Northeast African Cheetah.^[2]^[3]