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--> FAMILY Felidae
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GENUS Caracal
| Author: | Gray, 1843. | | Citation: | List. Spec. Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 46. | | Type Species: | Caracal melanotis Gray, 1843 (= Felis caracal Schreber, 1776) by monotypy. | | Comments: | Recent studies (Groves, 1982a; Král and Zima, 1980) emphasized the closeness of this taxon to Felis and the separation of it from Lynx (sensu Simpson, 1945). Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Werdelin (1981) placed caracal Schreber in the monotypic Caracal followed here (placed in Urolynchus by Kratochvíl, 1982c). Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered Caracal the sister taxon to Leptailurus serval. However Mattern and McLennan then considered this pair related to Profelis aurata whereas Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) placed it with more typical Felis. Johnson and O'Brien (1997) considered C. caracal and P. aurata to be sister groups. McKenna and Bell (1997) placed Caracal in Felis (Lynx). |
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