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The family Felidae consists of 41 extant species belonging to 14 genera and divided into 92 subspecies. This does not include hybrid species (such as the liger) or extinct prehistoric species (such as Smilodon). Modern molecular studies indicate that the 14 genera can be grouped into 8 lineages. [9]
The family Felidae is part of the Feliformia, a suborder that diverged probably about into several families. [33] The Felidae and the Asiatic linsangs are considered a sister group , which split about 35.2 to 31.9 million years ago .
"A revised taxonomy of the Felidae" looks like it but mark it somewhere that it's for the whole table and not just the in-line use. Added an explicit heading that calls out the source. --Pres N 03:19, 26 March 2019 (UTC) The other articles all have the genus name, describer name/year, and number of species in the same line.
List of felids – the family Felidae consists of 41 extant species belonging to 14 genera and divided into 92 subspecies. List of domestic cat breeds – includes only domestic cat breeds and domestic × wild hybrids; List of individual cats – includes cats that have achieved some degree of popularity either in their own right.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
This is a list of species in the Felidae family, which aims to evaluate their size, ordered by maximum reported weight and size of wild individuals on record. The list does not contain cat hybrids , such as the liger or tigon .
Family Prionodontidae (Asiatic linsangs) has two extant species in one genus. They live in Southern-East Asia. All are arboreal hypercarnivorans. They are the closest living relatives of the family Felidae. [13] Family Viverridae (all but two civets, genets, oyans, and the binturong) has 30 living species. They all have long bodies, short legs ...
A member of this family is called a mustelid; Mustelidae is the largest family in Carnivora, and its extant species are divided into eight subfamilies. They are found on all continents except Antarctica and Australia, and are a diverse family; sizes range, including tails, from the widespread 17 cm (7 in) least weasel to the 1.8-meter (6 ft ...