Prionailurus
Bengalensis Subspecies
(Total 31 as of June 2007)
| Subspecies |
Discovered |
Credited
To |
Territory |
| alleni
* |
1949 |
Sody |
Hainan
Is. - China |
| anastasiae |
1905 |
Satunin |
|
| bengalensis
* |
1792 |
Kerr |
Bangladesh,
S.E.Asian |
| borneoensis
* |
1935 |
Brongersma |
Borneo |
| chinensis
* |
1837 |
Gray |
China,
Taiwan |
| decolorata |
|
|
Hopei,
N.E. China |
| ellioti |
1842 |
Gray |
|
| euptilura
* |
1871 |
Elliot |
Eastern
Siberia, Mongolia |
| heaneyi |
1997 |
Groves |
Indonesia,
Philippines, Palawan Faunal |
| horsfeildi
* |
1842 |
Gray |
Himalaya,
S.Kashmir |
| ingrami |
1903 |
Bonhote |
|
| iriomotensis
* |
1967 |
Imaizumi |
Iriomote |
| javanensis
* |
1816 |
Desmarest |
Java
& Bali |
| manchurica
* |
1922 |
Mori |
Mancuria
China |
| microtis |
1872 |
Milne-Edwards |
|
| minuta
* |
1827 |
Temminck |
Philippines |
| nipalensis |
1829 |
Horsfield
and Vigors |
|
| orientalis
|
1857 |
Schlegel |
Russia,
China,N.Korea |
| pardochrous |
1844 |
Hodgson |
|
| rabori |
1997 |
Groves |
Negros,
Cebu,Panay |
| raddei |
1904 |
Trouessart |
|
| reevesii |
1843 |
Gray |
|
| ricketti |
1903 |
Bonhote |
|
| scripta
* |
1872 |
Milne-Edwards |
|
| sumantranus
* |
1821 |
Horsfield |
Sumatra |
| tenasserimensis |
1867 |
Gray |
|
| tingia
* |
1908 |
Lyon |
|
| trevelyani
* |
1939 |
Pocock |
E.
Pakistan, N.Kashmir |
| tsushimansis
* |
1995 |
Masuda
& Yoshida |
Tsushima
Island (Japan) |
| undata |
1862 |
Radde |
|
| wagati
* |
1867 |
Gray |
|
This
list was compiled byAlan Brown with the invaluable advice of Colette Griffiths
and her reference library as well as Internet resources.
* Some
sources site that only there are only fifteen subspecies
* Only
recently discovered and proven its own subspecies in 1995
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