Leptailurus serval (Schreber, 1776)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 292-293

Leptailurus serval (Schreber, 1776) . Die Säugethiere, 3(16):pl. 108 (1776]; text 3(23):407[1777].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Ostindien und Tibet in gebirgegen Gegenden, vielleicht auch am Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und dem heissem Afrika"; restricted by Allen (1924) to the " Cape region of South Africa " .

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, N Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe; formerly in Morocco.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered as F. s. constantina.

SYNONYMS: algiricus Fischer, 1829; beirae Wroughton, 1910; brachyura Wagner, 1841 ; capensis Forster, 1781 ; constantina Forster, 1780; faradjius Allen, 1924; ferrarii de Beaux, 1924; galeopardus Desmarest, 1820; hamiltoni Roberts, 1931; hindei Wroughton, 1910; ingridi Lundholm, 1955; kempi Wroughton, 1910; kivuensis Lönnberg, 1919; larseni Thomas, 1913; limpopoensis Roberts, 1926; liposticta Pocock, 1907; lonnbergi Cabrera, 1910; mababiensis Roberts, 1932; niger Lönnberg, 1897; ogilbyi Schinz, 1844; pantasticta Pocock, 1907; phillipsi Allen, 1914; pococki Cabrera, 1910; poliotricha Pocock, 1907; senegalensis Lesson, 1839 ; servalina Ogilby, 1839 ; tanae Pocock, 1944; togoensis Matschie, 1893.

COMMENTS: Placed in Leptailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvfl (1982c); Groves (1982a) considered Leptailurus a subgenus of Felis .