Prionailurus bengalensis

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Felinae
Genus: Prionailurus
Species: Prionailurus bengalensis
Subspecies (2): P. b. bengalensis – P. b. euptilurus

[source: Kitchener et al. (2017)]

• Prionailurus bengalensis (Kerr, 1792)

Località tipo: “Bengal”, India.

Remarks: P. javanensis separated from P. bengalensis as a species by Kitchener et al. (2017).

• Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792: 151 [original combination]

• Felis euptailura Elliot, 1871: 761 [valid as P. b. euptilurus]
• Felis microgale Dubois, 1908: 1267 [for fossils; synonymized by Brongersma, 1935: 7]
• Mayailurus iriomotensis Imaizumi, 1967: 75 [synonym of P. b. euptilurus]

• Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom or zoological system of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus. Class I. Mammalia: Containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young, being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae as lately published with great mprovements by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers and illustrated with copper plates. Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh. BHL
• Elliot, D.G. 1871. Remarks on various Species of Felidæ, with a Description of a Species from North-Western Siberia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 758–761.
• Dubois, E. 1908. Das geologische Alter der Kendeng- oder Trinil-Fauna. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, ser. 2, 25: 1235–1270. Delpher Reference page. 
• Brongersma, L.D. 1935. Notes on some recent and fossil cats, chiefly from the Malay Archipelago. Zoologische Mededelingen 18(1): 1–89, pl. I–XI. Introduction. PDF. Reference page. 
• Imaizumi, Y. 1967. A new genus and species of cat from Iriomote, Ryukyu Islands. Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan 3(4):75–108. DOI: 10.11238/jmammsocjapan1952.3.75

• Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, Ch., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting, A., Yamaguchi, N., Abramov, A.V., Christiansen, P., Driscoll, C., Duckworth, J.W., Johnson, W., Luo, S.-J., Meijaard, E., O’Donoghue, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z. & Tobe, S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/ SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11: 80 pp. PDF. Reference page. 

• Prionailurus bengalensis in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editor) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Ross, J., Brodie, J., Cheyne, S., Hearn, A., Izawa, M., Loken, B., Lynam, A., McCarthy, J., Mukherjee, S., Phan, C., Rasphone, A. & Wilting, A. 2015. IUCN: Prionailurus bengalensis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T18146A50661611. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T18146A50661611.en

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