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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 English
chat haret in French
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 Nynorsk, Norwegian
tamkatt in Swedish
Cath Fferal in Welsh
Cathod Fferal in Welsh
Domestic Cat in English
huskatt in Norwegian Bokmål
huskatt in Nynorsk, Norwegian

Bibliographic References

  1. Hess et al. (2007), https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=nwrcinvasive
  2. 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)
  3. 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.
  4. Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
  5. McClory and Gotthardt (2008), https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/species/nonnative/invasive/pdfs/invasivespp_report.pdf
  6. Wilson & Reeder (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference
  7. 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.
  8. 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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