Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827)

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Profelis aurata (Temminck 1827)

[Profelis] aurata ( Temminck 1827) , 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).