Felis chaus kutas
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| Subspecies: | F. c. kutas
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| Felis chaus kutas Pearson, 1832
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Felis chaus kutas is a subspecies of the jungle cat that ranges from Bengal westwards to Kutch.[2]
In 1832, a stuffed cat was presented at a meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal that had been caught in the jungles of Midnapore in West Bengal. Pearson who donated the specimen described it as different in colour from Felis chaus and proposed the name Felis kutas.[3]
References
- ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Ellerman, J. R. and Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. (1966). Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Second edition. British Museum of Natural History, London. Pp. 306–307.
- ^ Pearson, J. T. (1832) A stuffed specimen of a species of Felis, native of the Midnapure jungles. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Vol. I: 75.