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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
--> GENUS Caracal
SPECIES Caracal caracal
| Author: | Schreber, 1776. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 3(16): pl. 110[1776]; see als text 3(24):413, 587[1777]. | | Common Name: | Caracal | | Type Locality: | "Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung", restricted by J. A. Allen (1924:281) to "Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa". | | Distribution: | Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso (?), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mali (?), Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I (Asian population); otherwise, Appendix II; IUCN – Least Concern. | | Comments: | J. A. Allen (1924) discussed the authority. Subspecies allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939), Ellerman et al. (1953), and Smithers (1971). |
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