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Felidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow vol.5 p.372

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Carnivora
family
Felidae

Name

Homonyms
Felidae
Common names
Cat in English
Cat in English
Cats in English
Cats in English
Chats in French
Chats in French
Famîleya pisîkan in Kurdish
Fauves in French
Felidi in Italian
Felids in English
Felines in English
Felines in English
Felinos in Spanish
Felisedoj in Esperanto
Felí in Catalan–Valencian
Felídeos in Portuguese
Félidos in Spanish
Félidés in French
Félins in French
Họ Mèo in Vietnamese
Kaater in language.
Kaslased in Estonian
Katachtigen in Dutch
Katagtiges in Afrikaans
Katiniai in Lithuanian
Katte in Limburgish
Kattedyr in Norwegian Bokmål
Katter in Norwegian Bokmål
Katzen in German
Kazen in Luxembourgish
Kedigiller in Turkish
Kotowate in Polish
Kotzen in language.
Kuciang in language.
Kucing in Indonesian
Macet in Albanian
Mačke in Croatian
Tchetidî in Walloon
True Cats in English
Ucing in Sundanese
cat in English
cats in English
cats in English
cats in English
cats in English
cats in English
felines in English
felines in English
felini in Corsican
kattdjur in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  5. 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.
  6. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  7. Ruggiero, M. A. (2014). Families of All Living Organisms, Version 2.0.a.15, (4/26/14). Expert Solutions International, LLC, Reston, VA. 420 pp.
  8. Ruggiero, M. A. (2014). Families of All Living Organisms, Version 2.0.a.15, (4/26/14). Expert Solutions International, LLC, Reston, VA. 420 pp.
  9. Sunquist, M. E. and F. C. Sunquist / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2009: Family Felidae (Cats). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1: Carnivores. 54-169.
  10. Wilson & Reeder (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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