Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Felis silvestris Schreber 1777

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.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 280, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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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