Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 278

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scientific name	Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792
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Felis bengalensis Kerr, 1792 View in CoL . Anim. Kingdom, 1:151.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Bengal, Sunderbans .

DISTRIBUTION: Lower Amur (E. Siberia) through Korea and N.E. China and most of the Oriental region west to Baluchistan, and southeast to Taiwan; Philippine Isis., Java, Bali, and Borneo.

COMMENT: Includes euptilura from E. Siberia; see Corbet, 1978:184; but also see Gromov and Baranova, 1981:285, who listed euptilura as a distinct species. Includes minuta; see Chasen, 1940:108. See Heptner, 1971, Zool. Zh., 50: 1720, for discussion of systematics. Subspecies extremely variable (AHS).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae . CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as F. b. bengalensis subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001003001.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Felidae
Genus	Felis