the mother carries her kittens It should also point out that the behaviour links to mating as well During mating the male bites the female on the back of the neck and it is noticeable that many cats will adopt a ready posture when not in heat or even male cats when grasped by the scruff 62 49 6 17 I ve added this see Cat Skin Think outside the box Scientific classification It appears that the current use of F silvestris catus as the main scientific name is the result of a somewhat misguided interpretation of developments in taxonomy I propose it is changed back to F catus First this is a continuation of a lot of past discussion most recently Archive 8 Species name and Archive 8 Scientific name This discussion seems to have petered out into inactivity It was noted that publications had started using silvestris catus but no such citations were given The article in its current state under Scientific classification cites ICZN opinion 2027 However as was noted in the prior discussion this is a misinterpretation of the ruling which was specifically aimed at wild animals and did not affect domestic animals see this note specifically reading from This erroneous nomenclature and the preceding paragraphs ITIS was also cited in discussion This clearly prefers catus as the conventional name although it cites MWS in noting that silvestris is also a synonym It would therefore be much more NPOV to acknowledge F catus as the usual name If catus and silvestris are indeed the same species then this should be discussed under Scientific classification Currently this section should have disputed section Scientific classification put on it because its interpretation of the source is wrong I would do this but I m a new user so semi protection is stopping me It would be even better if somebody can provide a source explaining the equivalence all the most cited most reliable sources in this discussion so far have favoured F catus Also while this is still semi protected I d like to point out that both inline citations of Mammal Species of the World should be removed The first is uncalled for by WP LEAD Citations The name cat is common knowledge and is recognised by all 62 other references in the article body The second deals with specific species names for cat breeds MSW doesn t even mention these names so it s unfair to synthesise from that that Wozencraft let alone all feline biologists does not support them However MSW is a useful reference so I suggest moving the citation to external links or a probably needed Further reading section Works for me My opinion last time was that we should go with whatever the reliable sources say and F catus is now the accepted name then so be it chat MSW3 is the canonical listing of mammalian taxonomy It uses Felis catus and notes there is some controversy We should do the same talk I view this with suspicion If s interpretation is true then ITIS should not report the domestic dog as Canis lupus familiaris and call Canis familiaris invalid The ITIS webpage has no entry at all for Felis silvestris catus not even to call it invalid Felis silvestris catus is used more and more frequently in the scientific literature I draw this from scholar google com From 1982 1991 0 uses of Felis silvestris catus many uses of Felis silvestris f catus whatever that notation means From 1992 2000