IRMNG - Caracal Gray, 1843

IRMNG taxon details

Caracal Gray, 1843

IRMNG_ID

1408823 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1408823)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Felidae Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Caracala Gray, 1842 · unaccepted > nomen nudum

Urolynchus Severtzov, 1858 · unaccepted

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Species Caracal caracal (Schreber, 1776)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

List Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.
page(s): 46 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark See Caracala (Nomen. Zool.); this spelling accepted in McKenna & Bell, 1997 (in synonymy of Felis subgenus Lynx) and...

Taxonomic remark See Caracala (Nomen. Zool.); this spelling accepted in McKenna & Bell, 1997 (in synonymy of Felis subgenus Lynx) and Wilson & Reeder, 2005 (as a valid genus). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Caracal Gray, 1843. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1408823 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2020-11-20 05:15:39Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (10)
Notes (2)

original description List Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.
page(s): 46 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Urolynchus Severtzov, 1858) Rev. Mag. Zool., (2) 10, 389
page(s): 390 [details]

original description (of Caracala Gray, 1842) Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., ed. 44
page(s): 16 [details]

From other sources

Taxonomic remark See Caracala (Nomen. Zool.); this spelling accepted in McKenna & Bell, 1997 (in synonymy of Felis subgenus Lynx) and Wilson & Reeder, 2005 (as a valid genus). [details]

Type species as cited Caracal melanotis Gray, 1843 (= Felis caracal Schreber, 1776) by monotypy. [details]