Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
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Classification

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

ecofunctional group

Predator

eunis habitat

Woodland and forest habitats and other wooded land (G level 1)

cuddliness

cuddly

nutrient level

eutrophic

lifespan

longlived

mobility

mobile

biome

terrestrial

spine

vertebrate

biotope

woodlands

Felis silvestris Schreiber 1775

Wildcat, Felis silvestris Schreber, 1775

Fig. 10

In the course of this research it was possible to examine one adult stuffed specimen in the collections of the Palmyra Archaeological Museum (PAM), another in the house of the taxidermist Mohammed Al Salie in the village of Salamieh (which had been captured in the vicinity), and another which was on sale in a shop at Damascus airport, very likely captured in the surroundings in 1992. The occurrence of the wild cat in the protected desert area of Al talila, Tadmor (= Palmyra) was confirmed in 2001 by the results of a camera trapping campaign carried out by Serra et al. (2007).

materials_examined

COLLECTOR / S. — Initially collected by Pieter Heinrich Polemann [1779 - 1839] and provided to the Baudin expedition at Cape Town (Péron 1804 a). One animal was taken back to France aboard Le G é ographe (Jangoux et al. 2010: 269). COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa. COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804. SPECIMEN NUMBER / S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection. ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

materials_examined

COLLECTOR / S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa. COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804. SPECIMEN NUMBER / S. — MNHN-ZM-MO- 2001 - 324 (Fig. 61), holotype, skin mount. OTHER NUMBER / S. — Nouv. Cat. Gal. 149.

materials_examined

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.

Name

Homonyms: Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777
Common names: Chat sauvage in French; Common Wild Cat in English; Evrópski villiköttur in Icelandic; 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; Wilde kat in Dutch; Wildkatze in German; Wildkatze in German; Wildkatze in German; Wëll Kaz in Luxembourgish; Yaban kedisi in Turkish; Ye-Mao in language.; chat sauvage, chat sauvage deurope, chat forestier in French; wild cat in language.; wild cat in English; wild cat in English; wild cat in English; wildcat in English; wildcat, wild cat in English; wilde kat in Dutch; Wild Cat in English; Wildcat in English; Wilde kat in Dutch; Al qit in Arabic; Cath Wyllt in Welsh; Cathod Gwyllt in Welsh; Chat orné in French; Chat sauvage in French; Gato Montés in Spanish; Gato Silvestre in Spanish; Wild Cat in English; Wildcat in English; cait-fhiadhaich in Scottish Gaelic

Bibliographic References

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.
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.
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.
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.