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SPECIES Prionailurus viverrinus

Author:Bennett, 1833.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 68.
Common Name:Fishing Cat
Type Locality:"from the continent of India".
Distribution:Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia (Peninsular), Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.
Comments:Grouped with Prionailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982c), Groves (1982a), Salles (1992), Johnson and O’Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).
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Synonyms:

    bennettii (Gray, 1867)
    himalayanus (Jardine, 1834)
    rhizophoreus Sody, 1936
    viverriceps (Hodgson, 1836)

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