Caracal caracal
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Caracal
Caracal caracal

description: <i>Caracal caracal</i> (Schreber, 1776). Die Säugethiere, 3(16):pl. 110 (1776]; text 3(24):413, 587(1777). TYPE LOCALITY: "Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung", restricted by Allen (1924:281) to "Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa ". DISTRIBUTION: Aden, Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. See Stuart (1984) for distribution and status information. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as <i>Felis caracal</i> (Asian population); otherwise, Appendix II; IUCN - Rare as <i>F. c. michaelis.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>aharonii</i> Matschie, 1912; <i>algira</i> Wagner, 1841; <i>bengalensis</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>berberorum</i> Matschie, 1892; <i>coloniae</i> Thomas, 1926; <i>corylinus</i> Matschie, 1912; <i>damarensis</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>limpopoensis</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>lucani</i> Rochebrune, 1885; <i>medjerdae</i> Matschie, 1912; <i>melanotis</i> Gray, 1843; <i>michaelis</i> Heptner, 1945; <i>nubicus</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>poecilotis</i> Thomas and Hinton, 1921; <i>roothi</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>schmitzi</i> Matschie, 1912; <i>spatzi</i> Matschie, 1912. COMMENTS: Allen (1924) discussed the authority and the type locality. Several recent studies (Groves, 1982a; Krâl and Zima, 1980) emphasized the closeness of this taxon to <i>Felis</i> and the separation of it from <i>Lynx (sensu</i> Simpson, 1945). Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Werdelin (1981), placed <i>caracal</i> in the monotypic <i>Caracal (= Urolynchus of</i> Kratochvll, 1982c) followed here.
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 288-289, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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