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

description: <i>Prionailurus bengalensis</i> (Kerr, 1792). <i>In</i> Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1:151. TYPE LOCALITY: "Bengal" [India]. DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan (Tsushima and Iriomote Isis), Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippine Isis, Taiwan, Thailand, republics of the former USSR, and Vietnam. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as <i>Felis bengalensis bengalensis</i> (except for Chinese population); otherwise Appendix II. U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as <i>F. iriomotensis.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>alleni</i> Sody, 1949; <i>anastasiae</i> Satunin, 1905; <i>borneoensis</i> Brongersma, 1935; <i>chinensis</i> Gray, 1837; <i>ellioti</i> Gray, 1842; <i>euptilura</i> Elliot, 1871; <i>horsfieldi</i> Gray, 1842; <i>ingrami</i> Bonhote, 1903; <i>iriomotensis</i> Imaizumi, 1967; <i>javanensis</i> Desmarest, 1816; <i>manchurica</i> Mori, 1922; <i>microtis</i> Milne-Edwards, 1872; <i>minuta</i> Temminck, 1827; <i>nipalensis</i> Horsfield and Vigors, 1829; <i>pardochrous</i> Hodgson, 1844; <i>raddei</i> Trouessart, 1904; <i>reevesii</i> Gray, 1843; <i>ricketti</i> Bonhote, 1903; <i>scripta</i> Milne-Edwards, 1872; <i>sumatrana</i> Horsfield, 1821; <i>tenasserimensis</i> Gray, 1867; <i>tingia</i> Lyon, 1908; <i>trevelyani</i> Pocock, 1939; <i>undata</i> Radde, 1862; <i>wagati</i> Gray, 1867. COMMENTS: Placed in <i>Prionailurus</i> by Pocock (1917), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Groves (1982a), and Kratochvfl (1982c). Includes <i>euptilura</i> following Allen (1939) and Gao <i>(in</i> Gao, 1987). Heptner (1971) and Gromov and Baranova (1981), considered <i>euptilura</i> a distinct species; however, Gao <i>(in</i> Gao, 1987) pointed out that Heptner compared Russian specimens with those from Southeast Asia, whereas when intervening Chinese populations are included, his distinctions do not hold. Includes <i>minuta</i> following Chasen (1940). Imaizumi (1967) described <i>Mayailurus iriomotensis,</i> but his key characters are polymorphic in <i>bengalensis</i> (Glass and Todd, 1977; Petzsch, 1970). Groves (1982a) believed that <i>iriomotensis</i> warranted species level recognition.
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 page 295, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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