Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777. Saugethiere, 3:397. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany. DISTRIBUTION: Deciduous woodland savanna and steppe from W. Europe to N.W. China and C. India; Morocco to Egypt, south to Sudan, S. Mauritania and Senegal, eastward to Ethiopia, through Subsaharan savannas to the Cape (South Africa). COMMENT: This name was placed on the official list by opinion 465 of the ICZN, 1957. Includes libyca, chutuchta, vellerosa and catus (worldwide), which was domesticated from this species; see Corbet, 1978:181. F. s. vellerosa is probably a domestic cat (CPG). PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae (The domestic cat, Felis catus, is specifically excluded from protection). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001026001 as F. silvestris. 5301412007001006001 as F. catus. 5301412007001014001 as F. libyca.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 280, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980