Jaguars welcoming care of species (8)

I believe the answer is:

ecotypes

'species' is the definition.

'jaguars welcoming care of' is the wordplay.
'jaguars' becomes 'etypes' (E-Type is a type of Jaguar car).
'welcoming' indicates putting letters inside (in sense of 'inviting in').
'care of' becomes 'co' (c/o can mean 'care of' when addressing mail).
'etypes' placed around 'co' is 'ECOTYPES'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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