Felis chaus fulvidina

Felis chaus fulvidina is a jungle cat subspecies.[1][2] The mammal collector of the Natural History Museum Oldfield Thomas described the first jungle cat from Indochina in 1928.[3]

Indochinese jungle cat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Felinae
Genus: Felis
Species:
F. chaus
Subspecies:
F. c. fulvidina
Trinomial name
Felis chaus fulvidina
Thomas, 1928

It occurs mainly in deciduous forests rich in dipterocarp trees.[4][5] Since the early 1990s, jungle cats have been rarely encountered in Thailand, and have suffered drastic declines due to hunting and habitat destruction. Today, their official status in the country is critically endangered.[6] In Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, jungle cats have been subject to extensive hunting. Skins are occasionally recorded in border markets, and live individuals, possibly taken from Myanmar or Cambodia, occasionally turn up in the Khao Khieo and Chiang Mai zoos of Thailand.[5]

References
  1. Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Kitchener, A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi, N., Abramov, A. V., Christiansen, P., Driscoll, C., Duckworth, J. W., Johnson, W., Luo, S.-J., Meijaard, E., O’Donoghue, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z. & Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News (Special Issue 11).CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. Thomas, O. (1928). The Delacour Exploration of French Indo-China.— Mammals. III. Mammals collected during the Winter of 1927–28. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Volume 98, Issue 4: 831–841.
  4. Lekagul, B., McNeely, J.A. (1988). Mammals of Thailand. 2nd ed. Saha Karn Bhaet, Bangkok.
  5. Duckworth, J. W.; Poole, C. M.; Tizard, R. J.; Walston, J. L.; Timmins, R. J. (2005). "The Jungle Cat Felis chaus in Indochina: a threatened population of a widespread and adaptable species". Biodiversity & Conservation. 14 (5): 1263–1280. doi:10.1007/s10531-004-1653-4. ISSN 0960-3115.
  6. Lynam, A.J., Round, P., Brockelman, W.Y. (2006). Status of birds and large mammals of the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, Thailand Archived 2013-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. Biodiversity Research and Training Program and Wildlife Conservation Society, Bangkok, Thailand.


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