27/09/2018 List of Ten Wild Cat Species of Africa ~ Cats For Africa
Wild Cat Common name Subspecies
Scientific name
IUCN Red List Status
1. Lion Panthera leo leo - Central and West Africa and India Panthera leo Panthera leo melanochaita - Southern and Eastern Africa Vulnerable (VU)
2. Leopard Panthera pardus pardus - Africa Panthera pardus Panthera pardus tulliana - South West Asia Vulnerable (VU) Panthera pardus fusca - India Panthera pardus kotiya - Sri Lanka
Panthera pardus delacouri - South East Asia Panthera pardus orientalis - Eastern Asia Panthera pardus melas - Java Panthera pardus nimr - Arabia
3. Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus jubatus - Southern and Eastern Africa Acinonyx jubatus Acinonyx jubatus hecki - West and North Africa Vulnerable (VU) Acinonyx jubatus soemmerringi - North East Africa Acinonyx jubatus venaticus - South West Asia and India
4. Caracal Caracal caracal caracal - Southern and East Africa Caracal caracal Caracal caracal nubicus - North and West Africa Least Concern (LC) Caracal caracal schmitzi - Middle East to India
5. Serval Leptailurus serval serval - Southern Africa Leptailurus serval Leptailurus serval constantina - West and Central Africa Least Concern (LC) Leptailurus serval lipostictus - East Africa
Endemic to Africa
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Vulnerable (VU)
Endemic to Africa
7. Jungle Cat Felis chaus chaus - Egypt and Middle East to Turkestan, Felis chaus Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan
Felis chaus affinis - East Afghanistan, Indian subcontinent Least Concern (LC) and Sri Lanka Felis chaus fulvidina - SE Asia, including China
8. African & Asiatic Wildcat Felis lybica lybica - East, West and North Africa to the Felis lybica Middle East
Felis lybica cafra - Southern Africa Least Concern (LC) Felis lybica ornata - Asian range
9. Sand Cat Felis margarita margarita - North Africa Felis margarita Felis margarita thinobia - Southwest Asia and Arabian Peninsula Least Concern (LC)
10. Black-footed Cat None Felis nigripes
Vulnerable (VU)
Endemic to Africa
References
IUCN Red List Status: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2018-1. @June 2018. http://www.iucnredlist.org/.
Taxonomy: Kitchener 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 11, 80pp.
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