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Prionailurus bengalensis (Leopard Cat)

Synonyms: Felis bengalensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat native to South, Southeast and East Asia. Since 2002 it has been assessed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List as it is widely distributed but threatened by habitat loss and hunting in parts of its range. Leopard cat subspecies differ widely in fur colour, tail length, skull shape and size of carnassials.
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Infraspecies

Prionailurus bengalensis alleni (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis (leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis borneoensis (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis heaneyi (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis horsfieldii (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis rabori (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis sumatranus (Leopard cat)
Prionailurus bengalensis trevelyani (Leopard cat)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.3
EDGE Score: 2.23
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.023 lbs (5.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  96 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  70 %
Diet - Fish [2]  10 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [1]  62 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  35 inches (88 cm)
Weaning [1]  45 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Pavo muticus (Green Peafowl)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Herpestes javanicus (Small Asian Mongoose)1

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Green Peafowl, BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0