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Felis agrius Bate, 1905:317

Cretan wildcat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Felis lybica cretensis Haltenorth, 1953; Felis sylvestris cretensis Haltenorth, 1953

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

IUCN RedList status: synonym of Felis silvestris

 

Distribution

Crete, Greece

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Alderton, David. (1998). Wild Cats of the World. Cassell Illustrated. 192 pp.

Halternorth, Theodor. (1953). Die Widkatzen der Alten Welt. Leipzig.

Harper, Francis. (1945). Extinct and Vanishing Mammals of the Old World. New York, N.Y.: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, Special Publications 12: 1-850.

Mathias Herrmann, Andrew Kitchener, Holger Meinig, Michael Stubbe, Margarida Fernandes, Jim Conroy, Giorgos Giannatos, Juan Herrero, Andreas Kranz, Agnieszka Olszanska. 2007. Felis silvestris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T60354712A12919574. Downloaded on 19 March 2017.

Ragni B., Masseti M., Roussos T., Belardinelli A. and Cicconi P. 1999. The Carnivores on the Island of Crete, Greece. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region 1: 117-123..

 

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