Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 544

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

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scientific name

Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827)
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Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827) View in CoL

[Profelis] aurata ( Temminck 1827) View in CoL , Monogr. Mamm., Vol. 1: 120.

Type Locality: "Nous ne savons pas au juste dans quelle partie du globe a été trouvé"; fixed by Van Mensch and Van Bree (1969) to "probably the coastal region of Lower Guinea (Between Cross River and River Congo...)".

Vernacular Names: African Golden Cat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Profelis aurata subsp. aurata Temminck 1827

Subspecies Profelis aurata subsp. cottoni Lydekker 1907

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso (?), Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali (?), Nigeria (?), Rwanda, Senegal (?), Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Revised by Van Mensch and Van Bree (1969). Placed in Profelis by Pocock (1917 a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), and Groves (1982 a). Král and Zima (1980) placed it in Felis . Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Felidae

Genus

Profelis

Loc

Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Profelis] aurata ( Temminck 1827 )

Temminck 1827: 120
1827
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