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GENUS Prionailurus

Author:Severtzov, 1858.
Citation:Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, (2), 10: 387.
Type Species:Felis pardochrous Hodgson, 1844 (= Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792), by original designation.
Comments:Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Groves (1982a), Kratochvil (1982c), Collier and O'Brien (1985), and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), considered bengalensis, planiceps, iriomotenisis, rubiginosus, and viverrinus a monophyletic group. McKenna and Bell (1997) included bengalensis, iriomotensis, rubiginosus, and viverrinus. Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) separated rubiginosus, although there is no agreement nor consensus as to its correct placement. It is provisionally left in Prionailurus here, although perhaps it would be better to consider it as incertae sedis.
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Offspring:

SPECIES bengalensis

SUBSPECIES bengalensis

SUBSPECIES alleni

SUBSPECIES borneoensis

SUBSPECIES chinensis

SUBSPECIES euptilurus

SUBSPECIES heaneyi

SUBSPECIES horsfieldii

SUBSPECIES javanensis

SUBSPECIES rabori

SUBSPECIES sumatranus

SUBSPECIES trevelyani

SPECIES iriomotensis

SPECIES planiceps

SPECIES rubiginosus

SUBSPECIES rubiginosus

SUBSPECIES phillipsi

SPECIES viverrinus

Synonyms:

    Aelurina Gill, 1871
    Ailurin Gervais, 1855
    Ailurina Trouessart, 1885
    Ailurogale Fitzinger, 1869
    Ictailurus Severtzov, 1858
    Mayailurus Imaizumi, 1967
    Plethaelurus Cope, 1882
    Priononfelis Kretzoi, 1929
    Viverriceps J. E. Gray, 1867
    Zibethailurus Severtzov, 1858

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