Felis aurata Temminck, 1827

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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Felis aurata Temminck, 1827 . Monogr. Mamm., 1:120.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone .

DISTRIBUTION: Gambia to Kenya, south to Angola, S. Zaire, and Burundi.

COMMENT: Type locality is uncertain; see Gray, 1838, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 1:27, for the Sierra Leone information (IR); and Van Mensch and Van Bree, 1969, Biologia Gabon., 4:236-269, for "probably between Cross River and River Congo" which was given in a review of the species (CPG).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001001001.