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--> GENUS Prionailurus
SPECIES Prionailurus rubiginosus
Author: | I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831. | Citation: | InBélanger (ed.), Voy. Indes Orient., Mamm., 3(Zoologie): 140. | Common Name: | Rusty-Spotted Cat | Type Locality: | "bois de lataniers qui couvrent une hauteur voisine de Pondichéry" [India, Pondicherry]. | Distribution: | India, Sri Lanka (see Chakraborty, 1978). | Status: | CITES – Appendix I (Indian population), otherwise Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Placed in Prionailurus by Pocock (1917a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982c), and Groves (1982a). Herrington (1986), Salles (1992), Johnson and O'Brien (1997), and Mattern and McLennan (2000) all considered rubiginosus distant from other Prionailurus, although there is little agreement where it should be placed. See comments under genus. |
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