Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777

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 : 280

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scientific name	Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777
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Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777 View in CoL . Saugethiere, 3:397.

TYPE LOCALITY: Germany .

DISTRIBUTION: Deciduous woodland savanna and steppe from W. Europe to N.W. China and C. India; Morocco to Egypt, south to Sudan, S. Mauritania and Senegal, eastward to Ethiopia, through Subsaharan savannas to the Cape ( South Africa).

COMMENT: This name was placed on the official list by opinion 465 of the ICZN, 1957. Includes libyca , chutuchta, vellerosa and catus (worldwide), which was domesticated from this species; see Corbet, 1978:181. F. s. vellerosa is probably a domestic cat (CPG).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae (The domestic cat, Felis catus , is specifically excluded from protection).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001026001 as F. silvestris .

5301412007001006001 as F. catus .

5301412007001014001 as F. libyca .

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