Pallas's cat
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| Pallas's cat | |
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| Manul at Rotterdam Zoo | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Felidae |
| Subfaimily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Otocolobus Brandt, 1841 |
| Species: | O. manul |
| Binomial name | |
| Otocolobus manul (Pallas, 1776) | |
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| Pallas's cat range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Felis manul[2] | |
The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), cried the manul an aa, is a smaw wild cat wi a broad but fragmentit distribution in the moors an muntain steppes o Central Aisie. It is negatively affectit bi haibitat degradation, prey base decline, an huntin, an haes tharefore been cawd Near Threatened bi IUCN syne 2002.[1]
The Pallas's cat wis name't efter the German naituralist Peter Simon Pallas, wha first descrived the cat in 1776 unner the binomial Felis manul.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- 1 2 Ross, S.; Barashkova, A.; Farhadinia, M. S.; Appel, A.; Riordan, P.; Sanderson, J. & Munkhtsog, B. (2016). "Otocolobus manul". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2016-3. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 535. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Pallas, P. S. (1811). Felis Manul. In: Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium Animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicillia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Petropoli, in officina Caes. Acadamiae scientiarum. Vol. 1 : 20–23.
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