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SPECIES Leptailurus serval

Author:

Schreber, 1776.

Citation:

Die Säugethiere, 3(16): pl. 108[1776]; see also text 3(23):407[1777].

Common Name:

Serval

Type Locality:

"Ostindien und Tibet in gebirgegen Gegenden, vielleicht auch am Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und dem heissern Afrika"; restricted by J. A. Allen (1924) to the "Cape region of South Africa".

Distribution:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho (?), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Believed to be extirpated in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Status:

CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as L. s. constantina [sic]; IUCN – Endangered as L. s. constantinus, otherwise Least Concern.

Comments:

Synonyms allocated according to Smithers (1971).

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Offspring:

SUBSPECIES serval

SUBSPECIES beirae

SUBSPECIES brachyurus

SUBSPECIES constantinus

SUBSPECIES faradjius