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SPECIES Felis catus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 41. | | Common Name: | Domestic Cat | | Type Locality: | Listed as "Sweden" in Pocock (1951:6). | | Distribution: | Cosmopolitan. Specifically reported in: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Crete, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey. | | Status: | CITES � specifically excluded from protection. | | Comments: | Also see comments under Felis and Felis silvestris. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1951) and should be considered provisional. There has been almost universal use of F. catus for the domestic cat and silvestris for wild cats. Several authors have treated the domestic cat as separate from the wildcats (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Daniels et al., 1998; Kitchener, 1991; Mattern and McLennan, 2000; Nowak, 1999; Pocock, 1951; Wiseman et al., 2000); however also see Randi and Ragni (1986), Essop et al. (1997), and Johnson and O�Brien (1997), who presented morphological and molecular evidence to support catus, libyca, and silvestris as conspecific. If conspecific, there would be a problem with the continued use of the name Felis silvestris (see comments therein). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
agria Bate, 1906
angorensis Gmelin, 1788
antiquorum J. B. Fischer, 1829
aureus Kerr, 1792
bouvieri Rochebrune, 1883
brevicaudata Schinz, 1844
caerulea Erxleben, 1777
cumana Schinz, 1844
daemon Satunin, 1904
domestica Erxleben, 1777
hispanica Erxleben, 1777
huttoni Blyth, 1846
inconspicua Gray, 1837
japonica J. B. Fischer, 1829
longiceps Bechstein, 1800
madagascariensis Kerr, 1792
megalotis M�ller, 1839
pulchella Gray, 1837
rubra Gmelin, 1788
siamensis Trouessart, 1904
sinensis Kerr, 1792
striaas Bechstein, 1800
syriaca J. B. Fischer, 1829
tralatitia J. B. Fischer, 1829
vulgaris J. B. Fischer, 1829
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