Prionailurus bengalensis

(Kerr, 1792)

Mainland Leopard Cat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Feliformia
Infraorder : Feloidea
Family : Felidae
Subfamily : Felinae
Genus : Prionailurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia. A. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 462 pp.

Original name as described

Felis bengalensis

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Bengal, India.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Afghanistan · Pakistan · India · Nepal · Bhutan · Bangladesh · Russia · China · North Korea · South Korea · Japan · Taiwan · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia · Myanmar · Thailand · Malaysia · Singapore

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. javanensis; includes iriomotensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Patel, R. P., Wutke, S., Lenz, D., Mukherjee, S., Ramakrishnan, U., Veron, G., ... & Förster, D. W. (2017). Genetic structure and phylogeography of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) inferred from mitochondrial genomes. Journal of Heredity, 108(4), 349-360. · Kitchener, A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting, A., & Yamaguchi, N. (2017). A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group. Cat News.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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