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Prionailurus bengalensis
Comments:
Placed in Prionailurus by Pocock (1917ref), Weigel (1961ref), Hemmer (1978ref), Groves (1982ref), and Kratochvíl (1982ref). Includes euptilura following Allen (1939ref) and Gao (in Gao, 1987ref). Hep
tner(1971ref) and Gromov and Baranova (1981ref), considered euptilura a distinct species; however, Gao (in Gao, 1987ref) pointed out that Heptner compared Russian specimens with those from Southeast Asia, whereas when intervening
Chinese populations are included, his distinctions do not hold. Includes minuta following Chasen (1940ref). Imaizumi (1967ref) described Mayailurus iriomotensis, but his key characters are polymorphic in bengalensis (G
lass and Todd, 1977ref; Petzsch, 1970ref). Groves (1982ref) believed that iriomotensis warranted species level recognition.
A total of 4 were retrieved
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