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SPECIES Felis margarita

Author:Loche, 1858.
Citation:Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, (2), 10: 49.
Common Name:Sand Cat
Type Locality:"environs de Négonca (Sahara)" [Algeria].
Distribution:Afghanistan (?), Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Iran (?), Iraq (?), Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya (?), Mali (?), Mauritania (?), Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan (?), Syrian Arab Republic (?), Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara (?), Yemen.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as F. margarita scheffeli; IUCN – Near Threatened.
Comments:Revised by Schauenberg (1974) and Hemmer et al. (1976). Pocock (1951) and Schauenberg (1974) included Eremaelurus thinobia, which was recognized as separate by Haltenorth (1953) and Weigel (1961), but see discussion by Hemmer et al. (1976). Král and Zima (1980) suggested this species was closely related to F. manul. Subspecies allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939), Pocock (1951), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Schauenberg (1974), and Hemmer et al. (1976).
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SUBSPECIES margarita

SUBSPECIES airensis

SUBSPECIES harrisoni

SUBSPECIES meinertzhageni

SUBSPECIES scheffeli

SUBSPECIES thinobia

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