Pallas' Cat
Felis manul Pallas, 1776
First described in: Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs vol.3 p.692
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Felis manul subsp. manul Pallas 1776 Subspecies Felis manul subsp. ferruginea Ognev 1928 Subspecies Felis manul subsp. nigripecta Hodgson 1842
Order Carnivora
discussion
Discussion: Revised by Pocock (1907 a), Birula (1913, 1916), Ognev (1935), and Schwangart (1936). Most consider F. manul to be included with Felis (Felis) and separation into Otocolobus following Wozencraft (1993) would make Felis paraphyletic (Bininda-Emonds et al., 1999; Collier and O'Brien, 1985; Hemmer, 1978; Mattern and McLennan, 2000; Salles, 1992; Weigel, 1961). McKenna and Bell (1997) placed in Felis (Otocolobus). Subspecies allocated according to Pocock (1951) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).
Order Carnivora
distribution
Distribution: Afghanistan, Armenia, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Order Carnivora
materials_examined
Type Locality: " Frequens in rupestribus, apricis totius Tatariae Mongoliaeque desertae " [USSR, Chita Province, Borzya District, Kulusutai (Heptner and Sludskii, 1992)].
Order Carnivora
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Felis manul in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2435023.