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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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