Felis chaus affinis

Felis chaus affinis

Felis affinis Gray, 1830

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Feliformia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Ferae Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Feliformia

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Felinae
Genus: Felis
Species: Felis chaus
Subspecies: ?Felis chaus affinis

secundum Kitchener et al., 2017

Subspecies non certa: Felis chaus affinis

Synonyms: ?F. c. kelaarti – ?F. c. kutas – ?F. c. prateri – ?F. c. valbalala

Name

Felis chaus affinis (Gray, 1830)

Type locality: N India, Tehri Garwhal, Gangootri.

Syntypes: BMNH 1837.6.10.40 & 41

Synonyms

• Felis affinis Gray, 1830: pl. 3
• Felis chaus affinis ?partim de Winton 1898: 291
• Felis chaus affinis Pocock, 1939: 294
• Felis (Lynchus) erythrotus Hodgson, 1836: 233
• Felis jacquemontii Geoffroy, 1844: 58
• Lynchus erythrotus Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951: 306

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1830–35. Illustrations of Indian zoology; chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke, F.R.S. Pls. 1–202. Vol. I. Vol. II. (Date of Parts) Reference page. 
• Hodgson, B.H. 1836. Synoptical descriptions of sundry new animals, enumerated in the Catalogue of Nipalese Mammals. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 231–238. BHL Reference page. 
• Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1844. Mammifères. Appendice Oiseaux. pp. 3–102. In Voyage dans l'Inde, par Victor Jacquemont, pendant les années 1828 à 1832, publié sous les auspices de M. Guizot, Ministre de l'instruction publique. Tome 4. Didot frères: Paris. HathiTrust Commons Reference page. 
• de Winton, W.E. 1898. Felis chaus and its allies, with descriptions of new subspecies. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology Ser. 7 Vol. 2: 291–294. DOI: 10.1080/00222939808678046 BHL Reference page. 
• Pocock, R.I. 1939. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia I: Primates and Carnivora (in part), families Felidae and Viverridae. PDF Reference page. 
• Ellerman, J.R. & Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History): London. BHL Reference page. 
• Pocock, R.I. 1951. Catalogue of the genus Felis. British Museum (Natural History): London. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.128853 BHL Reference page.  pp. 161–165.

Additional references

• 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. 

Links

• Felis chaus affinis in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.