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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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
pallida Büchner, 1892 subpallida Jacobi, 1923
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