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

description: <i>Leptailurus serval</i> (Schreber, 1776). Die Säugethiere, 3(16):pl. 108 (1776]; text 3(23):407[1777]. TYPE LOCALITY: "Ostindien und Tibet in gebirgegen Gegenden, vielleicht auch am Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und dem heissem Afrika"; restricted by Allen (1924) to the " Cape region of South Africa ". DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, N Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe; formerly in Morocco. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered as <i>F. s. constantina.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>algiricus</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>beirae</i> Wroughton, 1910; <i>brachyura</i> Wagner, 1841; <i>capensis</i> Forster, 1781; <i>constantina</i> Forster, 1780; <i>faradjius</i> Allen, 1924; <i>ferrarii</i> de Beaux, 1924; <i>galeopardus</i> Desmarest, 1820; <i>hamiltoni</i> Roberts, 1931; <i>hindei</i> Wroughton, 1910; <i>ingridi</i> Lundholm, 1955; <i>kempi</i> Wroughton, 1910; <i>kivuensis</i> Lönnberg, 1919; <i>larseni</i> Thomas, 1913; <i>limpopoensis</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>liposticta</i> Pocock, 1907; <i>lonnbergi</i> Cabrera, 1910; <i>mababiensis</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>niger</i> Lönnberg, 1897; <i>ogilbyi</i> Schinz, 1844; <i>pantasticta</i> Pocock, 1907; <i>phillipsi</i> Allen, 1914; <i>pococki</i> Cabrera, 1910; <i>poliotricha</i> Pocock, 1907; <i>senegalensis</i> Lesson, 1839; <i>servalina</i> Ogilby, 1839; <i>tanae</i> Pocock, 1944; <i>togoensis</i> Matschie, 1893. COMMENTS: Placed in <i>Leptailurus</i> by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvfl (1982c); Groves (1982a) considered <i>Leptailurus</i> a subgenus of <i>Felis.</i>
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 292-293, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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