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Prionailurus rubiginosus (Rusty-Spotted Cat)

Synonyms: Felis rubiginosa

Wikipedia Abstract

The rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) is one of the cat family's smallest members, and is found only in India and Sri Lanka. It has been assessed as Near Threatened by the IUCN in 2016 as populations are fragmented and affected by loss and destruction of prime habitat, deciduous forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Prionailurus rubiginosus

Infraspecies

Prionailurus rubiginosus phillipsi (Sri Lankan rusty-spotted cat)
Prionailurus rubiginosus rubiginosus (Rusty-spotted cat)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
47
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.24
EDGE Score: 3.81
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.976 lbs (1.35 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [2]  100 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  68 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  17 inches (44 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 1364022 India  
Sinharaja Forest Reserve IV 16201 Sri Lanka  
Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary IV 51099 Maharashtra, India  
Weenen Nature Reserve   Kwazulu Natal, South Africa  
Wilpattu National Park II 320298 Sri Lanka  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echidnophaga gallinacea (sticktight flea)[5]
Paragonimus westermani[6]
Toxascaris leonina[6]

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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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