Modern taxonomic sources list bobcats within the lynx rufus species, Which are assumed to have evolved from the Eurasian lynx. There are twelve named subspecies: a lynx rufus rufus, Lynx rufus gigas, Lynx rufus floridanus, Lynx rufus superiorensis, Lynx rufus baileyi, Lynx rufus californicus, Lynx rufus escuinipae, Lynx rufus oaxacensis, lynx, Rufus pallescens, Lynx rufus […]