Felidae

= Teaghlach Felidae - Cait (Beurla: Cats) =

## Fo-theaghlach [[Felinae]] [[cat beag]], [[cat meadhanach mór]] ([[Beurla]]: [[small cat]]s, [[medium-sized cat]]s)
### Gnè ''[[Acinonyx]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Acinonyx intermedius]]* †)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Acinonyx jubatus]]*) (Beurla: Cheetah)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Acinonyx pardinensis]]* †) (Beurla: Giant cheetah)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Acinonyx aicha]]* †)

### Gnè ''[[Caracal]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal]]*, *[[Felis caracal]]*) (Beurla: caracal, desert lynx)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal caracal]]*) (Schreber, 1776) - inhabits South Africa
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal nubicus]]*) (Fischer, 1829) - inhabits Nubia
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal algira]]*) (Wagner, 1841) - ranges from Algeria through Tunesia to Morocco
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal lucani]]*) (Rochebrune, 1885) - ranges from Angola to north of the Congo River basin
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal schmitzi]]*) (Matschie, 1912) - ranges from the Dead Sea region through Syria and Pakistan to India
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal poecilotis]]*) (Thomas and Hinton, 1921) - inhabits northern Nigeria
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal damarensis]]*) (Roberts, 1926) - inhabits southwest Africa
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Caracal caracal limpopoensis]]*) (Roberts, 1926) - inhabits Transvaal

### Gnè ''[[Catopuma]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Catopuma badia]]*, *[[Pardofelis badia]]*) (Beurla: bay cat) - endemic to the island of Borneo that appears relatively rare compared to sympatric felids, based on the paucity of historical, as well as recent records.
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Catopuma temminckii]]*, *[[Pardofelis temminckii]]*) (Beurla: Asian golden cat, Temminck's cat) - lives throughout Southeast Asia, ranging from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India and Bangladesh to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Southern China, Malaysia and Sumatra

### Gnè ''[[Felis]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis attica]]* †)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis catus]]*) (Beurla: domestic cat) (the domestic cat is sometimes considered a subspecies of *[[Felis silvestris]]*)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis chaus]]*) (Beurla: jungle cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis lunensis]]* †) (Beurla: Martelli's cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis margarita]]*) (Beurla: sand cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis nigripes]]*) (Beurla: black-footed cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris]]*) (Beurla: wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris bieti]]*, *[[Felis bieti]]*) (Beurla: Chinese mountain cat, Chinese desert cat, Chinese steppe cat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris cafra]]*) (Beurla: Southern African wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris caucasica]]*) (Beurla: Caucasian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris caudata]]*) (Beurla: Turkestan wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris chutuchta]]*) (Beurla: Mongolian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris cretensis]]*) (Beurla: Cretan wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris foxi]]*) (Beurla: Mid-belt wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris gordoni]]*) (Beurla: Arabian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris grampia]]*) (Beurla: Scottish wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris griselda]]*) (Beurla: Kalahari wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris hausa]]*) (Beurla: Hausa wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris iraki]]*) (Beurla: Iraqi wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris jordansi]]*) (Beurla: Balearic wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris lybica]]*) (Beurla: African wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris mellandi]]*) (Beurla: Rhodesian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris nesterovi]]*) (Beurla: Syrian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris ocreata]]*) (Beurla: Abyssinian wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris ornata]]*) (Beurla: Asiatic wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris reyi]]*) (Beurla: Corsican wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris rubida]]*) (Beurla: East African wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris silvestris]]*) (Beurla: European wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris tristrami]]*) (Beurla: Tristram's wildcat)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Felis silvestris ugandae]]*) (Beurla: Ugandan wildcat)

### Gèineas ''[[Leopardus]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus braccatus]]*) (Beurla: pantanal cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus colocolo]]*) (Beurla: colocolo)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus geoffroyi]]*) (Beurla: Geoffroy's cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus guigna]]*) (Beurla: kodkod)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus guttulus]]*) (Beurla: Southern tigrina)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus jacobitus]]*) (Beurla: Andean mountain cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus pajeros]]*) (Beurla: pampas cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus pardalis]]*) (Beurla: ocelot)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus tigrinus]]*) (Beurla: oncilla, tigrina)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leopardus wiedii]]*) (Beurla: margay)

### Gèineas ''[[Leptailurus]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Leptailurus serval]]*) (Beurla: Serval)

### Gèineas ''[[Lynx]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Lynx canadensis]]*) (Beurla: Canada lynx)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Lynx lynx]]*) (Beurla: Eurasian lynx)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Lynx pardinus]]*) (Beurla: Iberian lynx)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Lynx rufus]]*) (Beurla: Bobcat)

### Gèineas ''[[Miracinonyx]]'' [[á bith|†]] ([[Beurla]]: [[American cheetah]])
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Miracinonyx inexpectatus]]* †)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Miracinonyx trumani]]* †, *[[Miracinonyx studeri]]* †)

### Gèineas ''[[Otocolobus]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Otocolobus manul]]*) (Beurla: Pallas's cat, manul)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Otocolobus manul manul]]*) (Pallas, 1776) - inhabits the northern part of the range: from Jida River south of Lake Baikal to eastern Siberia
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Otocolobus manul nigripecta]]*) (Hodgson, 1842) - inhabits Tibet and Indian Kashmir
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Otocolobus manul ferruginea]]*) (Ognev, 1928) - inhabits the southwestern part of the range: the mountain ridge of Missanev, Kopet-Dag Mountains, Transcaspia, southwestern Turkestan, northern Iran, Baluchistan and Afghanistan

### Gèineas ''[[Pardofelis]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Pardofelis marmorata]]*) (Beurla: marbled cat) (Martin, 1836)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Pardofelis marmorata charltoni]]*) (John Edward Gray, 1846)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Pardofelis marmorata marmorata]]*) (William Charles Linnaeus Martin, 1836)

### Gèineas ''[[Prionailurus]]'' ([[Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov|Severtzov]], 1858)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Prionailurus bengalensis]]*) (Beurla: Leopard Cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Prionailurus planiceps]]*) (Beurla: Flat-headed Cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Prionailurus rubiginosus]]*) (Beurla: Rusty-spotted Cat)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Prionailurus viverrinus]]*) (Beurla: Fishing Cat)

### Gèineas ''[[Profelis]]'' ([[Nikolai Severtzov|Severtzov]], 1858)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Profelis aurata]]*) (Beurla: African golden cat) (Temminck, 1827)

### Gèineas ''[[Puma]]'' ([[William Jardine (naturalist)|Jardine]], 1834)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Puma concolor]]* (Linnaeus, 1771), *[[Felis concolor]]* (Linnaeus, 1771)) (Beurla: Cougar)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Puma pardoides]]* †) (Owen, 1846) (Beurla: Owen's Panther)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Puma yagouaroundi]]*) (Geoffroy, 1803) (Beurla: Jaguarundi)

## Fo-theaghlach [[Pantherinae]] [[cat mór]] ([[Beurla]]: [[big cat]]s)
### Gèineas ''[[Neofelis]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis diardi]]*) (Beurla: Sunda clouded leopard, Sundaland clouded leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis diardi borneensis]]*)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis diardi diardi]]*)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis nebulosa]]*) (Beurla: clouded leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis nebulosa brachyurus]]* †) (Beurla: Formosan clouded leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis nebulosa macrosceloides]]*)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Neofelis nebulosa nebulosa]]*)

### Gèineas ''[[Panthera]]''
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris]]*) (Beurla: tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris amoyensis]]*) (Beurla: South China tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris sumatrae]]*) (Beurla: Sumatran tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris tigris]]*) (Beurla: Bengal tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris jacksoni]]*) (Beurla: Malayan tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris corbetti]]*) (Beurla: Indochinese tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris altaica]]*) (Beurla: Siberian tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris virgata]]* †) (Beurla: Caspian tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris balica]]* †) (Beurla: Bali tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris sondaica]]* †) (Beurla: Javan tiger)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris acutidens]]* †)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera tigris trinilensis]]* †) (Beurla: Trinil tiger)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo]]*) (Beurla: lion)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo persica]]*) (Beurla: Asiatic lion)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo leo]]*) (Beurla: African lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo senegalensis]]*) (Beurla: West African lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo massaica]]*) (Beurla: Masai lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo azandica]]*) (Beurla: Congo lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo bleyenberghi]]*) (Beurla: Southwest African lion, Katanga lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo krugeri]]*) (Beurla: Transvaal lion)
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo barbarica]]*) (Beurla: Barbary lion) extinct in the wild
*** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo melanochaita]]* †) (Beurla: Cape lion)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo sinhaleyus]]* †) (Beurla: Sri Lanka lion, Ceylon lion)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo spelaea]]* †) (Beurla: Eurasian cave lion)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo fossilis]]* †) - Early Middle Pleistocene European cave lion 
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera leo atrox]]* †) (Beurla: American lion, North American cave lion)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca]]*) (Beurla: jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca hernandesii]]*) (Beurla: Central American jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca onca]]*) (Beurla: Coastal jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca palustris]]*) (Beurla: Southern jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca gombaszoegensis]]* †) (Beurla: European jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca augusta]]* †) (Beurla: Pleistocene North American jaguar)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera onca mesembrina]]* †) (Beurla: Pleistocene South American jaguar)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus]]*) (Beurla: leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus pardus]]*) (Beurla: African leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus orientalis]]*) (Beurla: Amur leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus melas]]*) (Beurla: Javan leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus nimr]]*) (Beurla: Arabian leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus saxicolor]]*) (Beurla: Persian leopard) including *[[Panthera pardus tulliana]]* (Beurla: Anatolian leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus fusca]]*) (Beurla: Indian leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus kotiya]]*) (Beurla: Sri Lanka leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus delacouri]]*) (Beurla: Indochinese leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus japonensis]]*) (Beurla: North China leopard)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus begoueni]]* †)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus sickenbergi]]* †)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus antique]]* †)
** (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera pardus spelaea]]* †) (Beurla: European Ice Age leopard)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera uncia]]*, *[[Felis irbis]]*, *[[Felis uncia]]*, *[[Uncia uncia]]*) (Beurla: snow leopard)
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera blytheae]]*) - prehistoric relative of snow leopard
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera crassidens]]*) - probably identical with another felid taxon
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera palaeosinensis]]*) Pleistocene pantherine, probably ancestral to the tiger
* (Laideann neo saidheansail: *[[Panthera schreuderi]]*)*
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Panthera shawi* - a prehistoric lion with leopard spots.
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Panthera toscana*) ([[Beurla]]: [[Tuscany lion]], [[Tuscany jaguar]] - probably [[junior synonym]] of *Panthera onca gombaszoegensis* ([[Beurla]]: [[European jaguar]])
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Panthera youngi*) - a prehistoric Chinese lion-like cat
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Panthera zdanskyi*) - prehistoric relative of [[tiger]]

== Fo-theaghlach [[Machairodontinae]] [[á bith|†]] ([[Theodore Nicholas Gill|Gill]], 1872) ([[Beurla]]: [[saber-toothed cat]]s) ==
=== Treubh [[Homotherini]] ([[Beurla]]: [[saber-toothed cat]]s) ===
==== Gèineas *Lokotunjailurus* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Homotherium* [[á bith|†]] ====

=== Treubh [[Metailurini]] ([[Beurla]]: [[saber-toothed cat]]s) ===
==== Gèineas *Adelphailurus* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Dinofelis* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Pontosmilus* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Stenailurus* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Metailurus* [[á bith|†]] ====

=== Treubh [[Smilodontini]] ([[Beurla]]: [[saber-toothed cat]]s) ===
==== Gèineas *Megantereon* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon cultridens* [[á bith|†]]) (Cuvier, 1824)
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon ekidoit* [[á bith|†]]) Werdelin & Lewis, 2000
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon eurynodon* [[á bith|†]]) Ewer, 1955
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon falconeri* [[á bith|†]]) Pomel, 1853
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon gracilis* [[á bith|†]]) Broom & Schepers, 1946
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon hesperus* [[á bith|†]]) Gazin, 1933
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon inexpectatus* [[á bith|†]]) Teilhard de Chardin, 1939
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon megantereon* [[á bith|†]]) Croizet & Jobert, 1828
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon nihowanensis* [[á bith|†]]) Teilhard de Chardin & Piveteau, 1930
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon spiryleris* [[á bith|†]]) (?)
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon vakhshensis* [[á bith|†]]) (?)
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Megantereon whitei* [[á bith|†]]) Broom, 1937

==== Gèineas *Paramachairodus* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Paramachairodus ogygia* [[á bith|†]])
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Paramachairodus orientalis* [[á bith|†]])

==== Gèineas *Rhizosmilodon* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Rhizosmilodon fiteae* [[á bith|†]]) (Wallace & Hulbert, 2013)

==== Gèineas *Smilodon* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Smilodon populator* [[á bith|†]]) (([[Peter Wilhelm Lund|Lund]], 1842))
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Smilodon fatalis* [[á bith|†]]) ([[Joseph Leidy|Leidy]], 1869)
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Smilodon gracilis* [[á bith|†]]) ([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1880)

=== Treubh [[Machairodontini]] ([[Beurla]]: [[saber-toothed cat]]s) ===
==== Gèineas *Hemimachairodus* [[á bith|†]] ====
==== Gèineas *Miomachairodus* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Miomachairodus pseudaeluroides* [[á bith|†]])

==== Gèineas *Machairodus* [[á bith|†]] ====
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Machairodus aphanistus* [[á bith|†]])

== Fo-theaghlach [[Proailurinae]] [[á bith|†]] ([[Beurla]]: [[first cat]]) ==
=== Gèineas *Proailurus* ([[Henri Filhol|Filhol]], 1879) ===
* ([[Laideann]] neo saidheansail: *Proailurus lemanensis** †) (Filhol, 1779)

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