Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Felidae
- genus
- Felis
- species
- Felis catus
Name
- Synonyms
- Felis catus domestica Erxleben, 1777
- Felis domesticus
- Felis lybica domestica
- Felis maniculata
- Felis maniculata domestica
- Felis silvestris catus Linnaeus, 1758
- Homonyms
- Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758
- Common names
- Almindelig huskat in Danish
- Cat in English
- Cat in English
- Chat domestique, Chat haret in French
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat in English
- Domestic Cat, House Cat, Feral Cat in English
- Domestic Cat, House Cat, Feral Cat in English
- Domestic cat in English
- Domestic cat in English
- Domestic cat in English
- Domestic cat in English
- Domestic cat, House cat, Feral Cat in English
- Hauskatze in language.
- Tamkat in Danish
- cat in language.
- cat in language.
- cat in English
- cats in language.
- chat haret in French
- domestic cat in language.
- domestic cat in English
- domestic cat in language.
- feral cat in language.
- house cat in language.
- huiskat in Dutch
- kissa in Finnish
- poti in language.
- pusiniveikau in language.
- Кіт свійський in Ukrainian
- Cat in English
- Feral Cat in English
- Feral Cat in English
- Feral Cat in English
- Huiskat in Dutch
- Pushi in language.
- tamkatt in Norwegian Bokmål
- tamkatt in Swedish
- tamkatt in Nynorsk, Norwegian
- Cath Fferal in Welsh
- Cathod Fferal in Welsh
- Domestic Cat in English
- huskatt in Nynorsk, Norwegian
- huskatt in Norwegian Bokmål
Bibliographic References
- Hess et al. (2007), https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=nwrcinvasive
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 22 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology of (a) the specific names of fifty-seven species, each of which is the type species of a genus in the class Mammalia, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936, and (B) of the specific names of two species belonging to the same class, each of which is currently regarded as the oldest available name for the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List in the same period.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C(C13), 179-200 (1955)
- Kitchener, A. C., C. Breitenmoser-Würsten, E. Eizirik, A. Gentry, L. Werdelin, A. Wilting, et al., 2017: A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue, vol. 11. 1-80.
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
- McClory and Gotthardt (2008), https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/species/nonnative/invasive/pdfs/invasivespp_report.pdf
- Wilson & Reeder (1899-12-31 23:00:00) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.