Karakum Desert
In 1926, Russian zoologist Sergey Ognev described a sand cat collected in the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan under the name "Eremaelurus thinobius". In 1938, British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock considered this specimen a species under the name "Felis thinobius". Later he considered it a subspecies of the sand cat, which to date is widely recognised.