Pallas's cat

Pallas's cat
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)
Pallas's cat range
Synonyms

Felis manul

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.

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.

References

  1. a b 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.