Caracal caracal (Schreber 1776)
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Caracal caracal (Schreber 1776) |
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Caracal caracal (Schreber 1776) View in CoL
[Felis] caracal Schreber 1776 View in CoL , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 3, 16: pl. 110 [1776]; see als text 3 (24): 413, 587 [1777].
Type Locality: "Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung", restricted by J. A. Allen (1924:281) to "Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa ".
Vernacular Names: Caracal.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. caracal Schreber 1776
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. algira Wagner 1841
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. damarensis Roberts 1926
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. limpopoensis Roberts 1926
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. lucani Rochebrune 1885
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. nubica J. B. Fischer 1829
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. poecilotis Thomas and Hinton 1921
Subspecies Caracal caracal subsp. schmitzi Matschie 1912
Distribution: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso (?), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mali (?), Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I (Asian population); otherwise, Appendix II; IUCN – Least Concern.
Discussion: J. A. Allen (1924) discussed the authority. Subspecies allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939), Ellerman et al. (1953), and Smithers (1971).
Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281.
Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.
Hinton, M. A. C. 1921. Some new African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 7: 368 - 373.
Matschie, P. 1912. Uber einige Rassen des Steppenluchses. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 25: 55 - 67.
Smithers, R. H. N. 1971. The mammals of Botswana. Museum Memoir, National Museums of Rhodesia, Salisbury, 4: 1 - 340.
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