Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777

Jackson, Stephen M., Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Baglione, Gabrielle & Callou, Cécile, 2021, Mammals collected and illustrated by the Baudin Expedition to Australia and Timor (1800 - 1804): A review of the current taxonomy of specimens in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris and the illustrations in the Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Zoosystema 43 (21), pp. 387-548 : 437

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a21
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5143452
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scientific name	Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777
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Felis ferus Erxleben, 1777

Felis ferus Erxleben, 1777: 518 .

COMMON NAME. — Wildcat.1962-1113.

CURRENT NAME. — Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777 View in CoL .

See Wozencraft (2005: 536), and Sunquist & Sunquist (2009: 167).

COLLECTOR/S. — Initially collected by Pieter Heinrich Polemann [1779-1839] and provided to the Baudin expedition at Cape Town ( Péron 1804a). 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.