Published January 31, 2009
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Felidae Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Description
Family FELIDAE (CATS)
• Small to quite large mammals with rounded head and ratherflat face, facial whiskers, and large eyes and ears; sleek and streamlined body with muscular legs.
• 48.639 9 cm.
• Holarctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, and Oriental regions.
• From desert through forest to mountain areas, from cold temperate zone to tropics.
• 14 genera, 37 species,at least 228 extant taxa.
• 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 9 species Vulnerable; 5 subspecies Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2009, Felidae, pp. 54-168 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 1 Carnivores, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6376899
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fischer de Waldheim
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Felidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Felidae de, 1817 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2009