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Felis nigripes Burchell 1824
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Felis nigripes Burchell 1824
Felis nigripes Burchell 1824, Travels in Interior of Southern Africa, Vol. 2: 592.
Type Locality: Burchell (1824:509) implied the country of the "Bachapins", presumably in the capital, "the town of Litákun (Letárkoon)...27°6'44". [S]...24°39'27"[E]" [South Africa].
Vernacular Names: Black-footed Cat.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Felis nigripes subsp. nigripes Burchell 1824
Subspecies Felis nigripes subsp. thomasi Shortridge 1931
Distribution: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: Král and Zima (1980) noted a distinctly different karotype from other Felis. McKenna and Bell (1997) placed in Felis (Microfelis).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 536, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E69BF2968277AF6992A8FF32E9D4E7ED (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/0CFFEDEED5D58D8B96772531F8922981 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231548257 (URL)
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References
- McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.