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SPECIES Felis bieti

Author:Milne-Edwards, 1892.
Citation:Rev. Gen. Sci. Pures Appl., 3: 671.
Common Name:Chinese Mountain Cat
Type Locality:"Batang Tatsien-Lou", restricted by Pousargues (1898:358) to "environ de Tongolo et de Ta-tsien-lou" [China, Sichuan].
Distribution:China (E Qinghai and N Sichuan; see He et al., 2004).
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.
Comments:Haltenorth (1953) suggested chutuchta and vellerosa belonged in silvestris (followed here). F. bieti, margarita, nigripes, and chaus are considered closely related by Hemmer (1978), Collier and O'Brien (1985), Salles (1992), and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999).
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Synonyms:

    pallida Büchner, 1892
    subpallida Jacobi, 1923

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