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Felis catus  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 183798

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Felis catus domestica Erxleben, 1777
  
  Common Name(s): Domestic Cat [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
  Kingdom Animalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
     Subkingdom Bilateria  – triploblasts  
        Infrakingdom Deuterostomia   
           Phylum Chordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
              Subphylum Vertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                 Infraphylum Gnathostomata   
                    Superclass Tetrapoda   
                       Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                          Subclass Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                             Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872  
                                Order Carnivora Bowdich, 1821 – cachorro do mato, carnívoro, gato do mato, lontra, carnivores, carnivores  
                                   Suborder Feliformia Kretzoi, 1945 – cat-like carnivores  
                                      Family Felidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 – cats  
                                         Subfamily Felinae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817  
                                            Genus Felis Linnaeus, 1758 – small cats  
                                               Species Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758 – Domestic Cat  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Felis catus    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Felis catus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Felis catus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Felis catus, Domestic Cat [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: CITES - specifically excluded from protection  
    Comments: Also see comments under Felis and Felis silvestris. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1951) and should be considered provisional. There has been almost universal use of F. catus for the domestic cat and silvestris for wild cats. Several authors have treated the domestic cat as separate from the wildcats (Corbet and Hill, 1991; Daniels et al., 1998; A. C. Kitchener, 1991; Mattern and McLennan, 2000; Nowak, 1999; Pocock, 1951; Wiseman et al., 2000); however also see Randi and Ragni (198...  
    Wilson & Reeder (eds., 2005) note that some consider catus and sylvestris (and lybica/libyca) to be conspecific. If this view were followed, "there would be a problem with the continued use of the name Felis sylvestris"  
 

 

    

 
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