Felis catus Linnaeus 1758
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Felis catus Linnaeus 1758
Felis catus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 41.
Type Locality: Listed as " Sweden " in Pocock (1951:6).
Vernacular Names: Domestic Cat.
Synonyms: Felis agria Bate 1906; Felis angorensis Gmelin 1788; Felis antiquorum J. B. Fischer 1829; Felis aureus Kerr 1792; Felis bouvieri Rochebrune 1883; Felis brevicaudata Schinz 1844; Felis caerulea Erxleben 1777; Felis cumana Schinz 1844; Felis daemon Satunin 1904; Felis domestica Erxleben 1777; Felis hispanica Erxleben 1777; Felis huttoni Blyth 1846; Felis inconspicua Gray 1837; Felis japonica J. B. Fischer 1829; Felis longiceps Bechstein 1800; Felis madagascariensis Kerr 1792; Felis megalotis Müller 1839; Felis pulchella Gray 1837; Felis rubra Gmelin 1788; Felis siamensis Trouessart 1904; Felis sinensis Kerr 1792; Felis striaas Bechstein 1800; Felis syriaca J. B. Fischer 1829; Felis tralatitia J. B. Fischer 1829; Felis vulgaris J. B. Fischer 1829.
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.
Conservation: CITES – specifically excluded from protection.
Discussion: 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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- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Pocock, R. I. 1951. Catalogue of the genus Felis. British Museum (Natural History), London, 190 pp.
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- de Rochebrune, A. T. 1883. Faune de la Senegambie, Mammiferes. Actes de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux 37, 4 (7): 49 - 203.
- Schinz, H. R. 1844 - 1845. Systematisches verzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Saugethiere, oder, Synopsis mammalium, nach dem Cuvier' schen system. Solothurn, Jent und Gassmann, 2 vols.
- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
- Gray, J. E. 1837 [1838]. On a new species of paradoxure (Paradoxurus derbianus) with remarks on some Mammalia recently purchased by the British Museum, and characters of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1837: 67.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp.
- Daniels, M. J., B. Balharry, D. Hirst, A. C. Kitchener, and R. J. Aspinall. 1998. Morphological and pelage characteristics of wild living cats in Scotland: Implications for defining the ' wildcat'. Journal of Zoology, London, 244 (2): 231 - 247.
- Mattern, M. Y., and D. A. McLennan. 2000. Phylogeny and speciation of felids. Cladistics, 16: 232 - 253.
- Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Wiseman, R., C. O'Ryan, and E. H. Harley. 2000. Microsatellite analysis reveals that domestic cat (Felis catus) and southern African wild cat (F. lybica) are genetically distinct. Animal Conservation, 3 (3): 221 - 228.
- Randi, E., and B. Ragni. 1986. Multivariate analysis of craniometric characters in European wild cat, domestic cat, and African wild cat (genus Felis). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 51: 243 - 251.