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--> GENUS Prionailurus
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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bennettii (Gray, 1867) himalayanus (Jardine, 1834) rhizophoreus Sody, 1936 viverriceps (Hodgson, 1836)
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