Subfamily
Felinae
33 species
The list of species of Felinae subfamily
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The list of species of Felinae subfamily
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The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is a medium-sized wild cat that was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The association of the ocelot with humans dates back to the Aztec and Incan civilizations; it has occasionally been kept as a pet.
The caracal (Caracal caracal) is a medium-sized wild cat. It was first scientifically described by German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1776. Typically nocturnal, the caracal is highly secretive and difficult to observe. It was...
The Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is the smallest wild cat in Africa. The first black-footed cat known to science was discovered in the northern Karoo of South Africa and described in 1824. This rare and secretive cat usually rests in burrows...
The Sand cat (Felis margarita) is a small wild cat that inhabits sandy and stony deserts far from water sources. The first Sand cat known to science was discovered in the Algerian Sahara and described in 1858. In the early 1970s, these adorable...
The African wildcat (Felis lybica) is a small wildcat species. In Cyprus, an African wildcat was found in a burial site next to a human skeleton in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement Shillourokambos. The graves are estimated to have been...
The wildcat is a species complex comprising two small wild cat species: the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and the African wildcat (F. lybica). The association of African wildcats and humans appears to have developed along with the...
The Jungle cat (Felis chaus) is a medium-sized cat. Its name comes from the Caucasus Mountains, the place this cat was first discovered. In Asia, it is the Jungle cat, but in Africa, it is commonly named Reed cat or Swamp cat, due to its preference...
The margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. Until the 1990s, margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease.
The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is a European wildcat population in Scotland. It was once widely distributed across Great Britain, but the population has declined drastically since the turn of the 20th century. It is now limited...
The Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita) is a small wild cat native to the high Andes. It is regarded as one of the world’s most endangered wild cats and perhaps South America’s rarest felid, yet, as far as cat species go, it is amongst the...
The kodkod (Leopardus guigna ) (Spanish pronunciation: ), also called güiña, is the smallest felid species native to the Americas. It lives primarily in central and southern Chile, as well as marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina. Its area of...
The oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus ), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the population is...
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) remains little known by science, though within Africa there is much tribal superstition about it. It is also called the ‘leopard’s brother’ because, according to local people, it follows the leopard. It is...
The Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola) is a small wild cat native to South America. It is named after the Pampas, fertile South American low grasslands. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as the loss of its native habitat may cause...
The Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica ornata) is an African wildcat subspecies. It is also known as the Asian steppe wildcat and Indian desert cat. There is no information on the current status or population numbers for the Asiatic wildcat's entire...
Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi ) is a small wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America. It is about the size of a domestic cat. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is widespread and abundant...
The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti ), also known as Chinese desert cat and Chinese steppe cat, is a small wild cat endemic to western China that has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the effective population size may...
The Southern African wildcat (Felis lybica cafra ) is an African wildcat subspecies. In 2007, it was tentatively recognized as a distinct subspecies on the basis of genetic analysis. It is also known in English as the 'bush cat'.
The European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) is a small wildcat subspecies found in Europe. Wildcats and the other members of the cat family had a common ancestor about 10-15 million years ago. The European wildcat evolved during the Cromerian...
Felis attica is an extinct cat, of which the first fossil skull was excavated near Pikermi in Attica, Greece.Fossils were also excavated near the Moldovan city of Taraclia.It was also discovered in Maragheh, northwestern Iran. F. attica was bigger...
The Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus) is a small wild cat species native to South America. It was long considered to be a subspecies of the oncilla and was recognized as a distinct species in 2013. The Southern tiger cat is in fact closely...
The Cretan wildcat is a member of the genus Felis. Its taxonomic status is unclear at present, as some biologists consider it probably introduced, or a European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris), or a hybrid between European wildcat and domestic...
The Arabian wildcat (Felis lybica lybica) is an African wildcat subspecies that inhabits the Arabian Peninsula.
The Corsican wildcat is an isolated feral cat (Felis catus) population that used to be considered a subspecies of the African wildcat (Felis lybica). Now it is thought to have been introduced to Corsica around the beginning of the first millennium....
The Caucasian wildcat (Felis silvestris caucasica is a European wildcat subspecies. It was described by Konstantin Satunin in 1905 on the basis of a skin of a female cat collected near Borjomi in Georgia.
The Pantanal cat (Leopardus colocola braccatus) is a Pampas cat subspecies, a small wild cat native to South America. It is named after the Pantanal wetlands in central South America
The Sardinian wildcat is an isolated population of feral cats (Felis catus) on the island of Sardinia, introduced during the Roman Empire. It has historically been misidentified as a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) and an African wildcat (Felis lybica)....
Felis margarita thinobia, known as the Turkestan sand cat, Arabian sand cat, and Pakistan sand cat, is a sand cat subspecies native to deserts in the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and Central Asia.
Felis margarita margarita, sometimes called the Saharan sand cat, is a subspecies of the sand cat native to the Sahara.
Leopardus vorohuensis is an extinct species of feline. Fossils of the species were found in the Vorohué Formation of Argentina and dated to the Uquian age of the early middle Pleistocene. It is the earliest known cat of the ocelot lineage of...
Felis chaus chaus is the nominate subspecies of the jungle cat.The Baltic-German naturalist Johann Anton Güldenstädt was the first scientist who observed a jungle cat in the southern frontier of the Russian empire during his travels in 1768–1775...
Felis chaus affinis is a jungle cat subspecies.It was described by British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1830 based on an illustration by Thomas Hardwicke.
Felis chaus fulvidina is a jungle cat subspecies.The mammal collector of the Natural History Museum Oldfield Thomas described the first jungle cat from Indochina in 1928.It occurs mainly in deciduous forests rich in dipterocarp trees.Since the early...
