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GENUS Neofelis

Author:Gray, 1867.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867: 265.
Type Species:Felis macrocelis Horsfield, 1825 (= Felis nebulosa Griffith, 1821), by subsequent designation by Pocock (1917a).
Comments:Placed in Pantherinae by Hemmer (1978) and Weigel (1961). Placed in Neofelinae by Kratochvíl (1982c). Pocock (1917a), Weigel (1961), Collier and O'Brien (1985), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) considered Neofelis either as the most primitive member of the Pantherinae, or as the first outgroup. Placed in Felinae by McKenna and Bell (1997). Considered a synonym of Pardofelis by Corbet and Hill (1992).
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SPECIES nebulosa

SUBSPECIES nebulosa

SUBSPECIES brachyura

SUBSPECIES diardi

SUBSPECIES macrosceloides

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