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The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. It is widely distributed from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. It inhabits temperate and boreal forests up to an elevation of 5,500 m (18,000 ft). Despite its wide distribution, it is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching and depletion of prey.
| Subspecies | Distribution | Image |
| Northern lynx (L. l. lynx) (Linnaeus, 1758) | Fennoscandia, the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus, European Russia, the Ural Mountains, Western Siberia and east to the Yenisei river. | |
| Turkestan lynx (L. l. isabellinus) Blyth, 1847 | West-Central Asia to Northern South Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, China (Tibet), India (Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (Altai Krai, Altai Republic) Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. | |
| Caucasian lynx (L. l. dinniki) Satunin, 1915 | Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, and European Russia. | |
| Siberian lynx (L. l. wrangeli) Ognew, 1928 | Russian Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, the Stanovoy Range and east of the Yenisei River. | |
| Balkan lynx (L. l. balcanicus) Bures, 1941 | Eastern Serbia and western North Macedonia, with smaller populations in Montenegro and Albania. | |
| Carpathian lynx (L. l. carpathicus) Kratochvil & Stollmann, 1963 | Carpathian Basin of Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Northern Italy. | |