'''PantherinaeBig cats''' isare alarge [[Felidae|felid]]s of the '''Pantherinae''' subfamily within the family [[Felidae]]; it was named and first described by [[Reginald Innes Pocock]] in 1917 as only including the ''[[Panthera]]'' species.<ref name=Pocock1917>{{cite journal |last1=Pocock |first1=R. I. |year=1917 |title=The Classification of existing Felidae |journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Series 8 |volume=XX |pages=329–350 |doi=10.1080/00222931709487018 |url=https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof8201917lond#page/n359/mode/2up}}</ref> The Pantherinae [[Genetic divergence|genetically diverged]] from a [[common ancestor]] between {{mya|9.32|4.47}} and {{mya|10.67|3.76}}.<ref name=Johnson06>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson, W. E. |last2=Eizirik, E. |last3=Pecon-Slattery, J. |last4=Murphy, W. J. |last5=Antunes, A. |last6=Teeling, E. |last7=O'Brien, S. J. |name-list-style=amp |title=The late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: a genetic assessment |year=2006 |journal=Science |volume=311 |issue=5757 |pages=73–77 |pmid=16400146 |doi=10.1126/science.1122277 |bibcode=2006Sci...311...73J |s2cid=41672825 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1230866}}</ref><ref name=Li_al2016>{{cite journal |last1=Li, G. |last2=Davis, B. W. |last3=Eizirik, E. |last4=Murphy, W. J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |title=Phylogenomic evidence for ancient hybridization in the genomes of living cats (Felidae) |journal=Genome Research |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1101/gr.186668.114 |pmid=26518481 |pmc=4691742}}</ref>
