Felidae Animal
A Felidae Animal is a Feliformia with retractile claws, slender muscular bodies and strong flexible forelimbs.
- Example(s):
- Pantherinae, such as: Lion (Panthera leo), Tiger (Panthera tigris), Jaguar (Panthera onca), and Leopard (Panthera pardus).
- Felinae, such as: Domestic Cat, Lynx, Cougar, Fishing Cat, Asian Golden Cat, Ocelot, European Wildcat, and Serval.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Feliformia, Gotthelf Fischer Von Waldheim, Oligocene, Holocene, Mammal, Carnivore, Feline.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae Retrieved:2023-6-5.
- Felidae (/ˈfɛlɪdiː/) is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is also called a felid (/ˈfiːlɪd/).[1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to the domestic cat (Felis catus).[3]
The 41 Felidae species exhibit the most diversity in fur patterns of all terrestrial carnivores.[4] Cats have retractile claws, slender muscular bodies and strong flexible forelimbs. Their teeth and facial muscles allow for a powerful bite. They are all obligate carnivores, and most are solitary predators ambushing or stalking their prey. Wild cats occur in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Some wild cat species are adapted to forest habitats, some to arid environments, and a few also to wetlands and mountainous terrain. Their activity patterns range from nocturnal and crepuscular to diurnal, depending on their preferred prey species.[5]
Reginald Innes Pocock divided the extant Felidae into three subfamilies: the Pantherinae, the Felinae and the Acinonychinae, differing from each other by the ossification of the hyoid apparatus and by the cutaneous sheaths which protect their claws.[6] This concept has been revised following developments in molecular biology and techniques for analysis of morphological data. Today, the living Felidae are divided in two subfamilies: the Pantherinae and Felinae, with the Acinonychinae subsumed into the latter. Pantherinae includes five Panthera and two Neofelis species, while Felinae includes the other 34 species in ten genera.[7]
The first cats emerged during the Oligocene about , with the appearance of Proailurus and Pseudaelurus. The latter species complex was ancestral to two main lines of felids: the cats in the extant subfamilies and a group of extinct cats of the subfamily Machairodontinae, which include the saber-toothed cats such as Smilodon. The "false sabre-toothed cats", the Barbourofelidae and Nimravidae, are not true cats, but are closely related. Together with the Felidae, Viverridae, hyenas and mongooses, they constitute the Feliformia.
- Felidae (/ˈfɛlɪdiː/) is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is also called a felid (/ˈfiːlɪd/).[1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to the domestic cat (Felis catus).[3]
- ↑ Salles, L. O. (1992). "Felid phylogenetics: extant taxa and skull morphology (Felidae, Aeluroidea)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3047). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
- ↑ Johnson, W. E.; Dratch, P. A.; Martenson, J. S.; O'Brien, S. J. (1996). "Resolution of recent radiations within three evolutionary lineages of Felidae using mitochondrial restriction fragment length polymorphism variation". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 3 (2): 97–120. doi:10.1007/bf01454358. S2CID 38348868.
- ↑ Werdelin, L.; Yamaguchi, N.; Johnson, W. E.; O'Brien, S. J. (2010). "Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae)". In Macdonald, D. W.; Loveridge, A. J. (eds.). Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–82. ISBN 978-0-19-923445-5. Archived from the original on 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ↑ Peters, G. (1982). "Zur Fellfarbe und zeichnung einiger Feliden". Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 33 (1): 19−31.
- ↑ Sunquist, M. & Sunquist, F. (2002). "What is a Cat?". Wild Cats of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 5–18. ISBN 978-0-226-77999-7. Archived from the original on 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
- ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1917). "The classification of the existing Felidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8. XX (119): 329–350. doi:10.1080/00222931709487018.
- ↑ Kitchener, A. C.; Breitenmoser-Würsten, C.; Eizirik, E.; Gentry, A.; Werdelin, L.; Wilting, A.; Yamaguchi, N.; Abramov, A. V.; Christiansen, P.; Driscoll, C.; Duckworth, J. W.; Johnson, W.; Luo, S.-J.; Meijaard, E.; O’Donoghue, P.; Sanderson, J.; Seymour, K.; Bruford, M.; Groves, C.; Hoffmann, M.; Nowell, K.; Timmons, Z.; Tobe, S. (2017). "A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group" (PDF). Cat News. Special Issue 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2017-07-19.