Felis silvestris Schreber 1777
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Description
Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777. Saugethiere, 3:397.
TYPE LOCALITY: Germany.
DISTRIBUTION: Deciduous woodland savanna and steppe from W. Europe to N.W. China and C. India; Morocco to Egypt, south to Sudan, S. Mauritania and Senegal, eastward to Ethiopia, through Subsaharan savannas to the Cape (South Africa).
COMMENT: This name was placed on the official list by opinion 465 of the ICZN, 1957. Includes libyca, chutuchta, vellerosa and catus (worldwide), which was domesticated from this species; see Corbet, 1978:181. F. s. vellerosa is probably a domestic cat (CPG).
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae (The domestic cat, Felis catus, is specifically excluded from protection).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001026001 as F. silvestris.
5301412007001006001 as F. catus.
5301412007001014001 as F. libyca.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF92FFAAFFD85854B97E533CFFF8E771 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03AB87D2FFFC5870B8415B47FB85ED94 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205120703 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193269/taxon/03AB87D2FFFC5870B8415B47FB85ED94.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Schreber
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Felidae
- Genus
- Felis
- Species
- silvestris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982