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Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Die Säugethiere vol.3 23 p.397

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Carnivora
family
Felidae
genus
Felis
species
Felis silvestris

Name

Homonyms
Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777
Common names
Asian races in English
Asiatic Steppe Wildcat in English
Caucasian wildcat in English
Caucasian wildcat in English
Chat forestier in French
Chat forestier in French
Chat forestier, Chat sauvage in French
Chat sauvage in French
Chat sauvage in French
Common Wild Cat in English
Desert Cat in English
Desert Cat (Asian races) in English
European wildcat in English
European wildcat in English
Evrópski villiköttur in Icelandic
Gato in language.
Gato montes in language.
Gato montés in Spanish
Gato montés in Spanish
Gato montés in Spanish
Gato-bravo in Portuguese
Gato-cabeçanas in Portuguese
Gatto selvatico in Italian
Macja e eger in Albanian
Metskass in Estonian
Metsäkissa in Finnish
Tu-li-zi in language.
Vadmacska in Hungarian
Vildkat in Danish
Vildkatt in Swedish
Villkatt in Norwegian
Vilpišys in Lithuanian
Wild Cat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wildcat in English
Wilde kat in Dutch
Wildkatze in German
Wildkatze in German
Wildkatze in German
Wildkatze in German
Wëll Kaz in Luxembourgish
Yaban kedisi in Turkish
Ye-Mao in language.
chat sauvage d'Europe in French

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Kitchener, A. C., C. Breitenmoser-Würsten, E. Eizirik, A. Gentry, L. Werdelin, A. Wilting, et al., 2017: A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue, vol. 11. 1-80.
  3. Rees, T. (compiler) . (2025). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Available from https://www.irmng.org at VLIZ. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.
  4. Sudarikov, V. E. (1960). Order Strigeata La Rue, 1926. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 18: 450–694. (In Russian).
  5. Sunquist, M. E. and F. C. Sunquist / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2009: Family Felidae (Cats). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1: Carnivores. 54-169.
  6. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  7. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
  8. Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.
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