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The clouded leopard is the sister taxon to other pantherine cats, having genetically diverged 9.32 to 4.47 million years ago. Today, the clouded leopard is locally extinct in Singapore, Taiwan, and possibly also in Hainan Island and Vietnam. The wild population is believed to be in decline with fewer than 10,000 adults and no more than 1,000 in ...
The Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Borneo and Sumatra. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2015, as the total effective population probably consists of fewer than 10,000 mature individuals, with a decreasing population trend. On both Sunda Islands, it is threatened by deforestation ...
A felid hybrid is any of a number of hybrids between various species of the cat family, Felidae. This article deals with hybrids between the species of the subfamily Felinae (feline hybrids). For hybrids between two species of the genus Panthera (lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards), see Panthera hybrid. There are no known hybrids between ...
The former includes the five Panthera species tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the two Neofelis species clouded leopard and Sunda clouded leopard. [2] The subfamily Felinae includes 12 genera and 34 species, such as the bobcat, caracal, cheetah, cougar, ocelot, and common domestic cat. [5]
Neofelis nebulosa brachyurus (Swinhoe, 1862) The Formosan clouded leopard is a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) population that was endemic to Taiwan. [3] Camera trapping studies carried out in several protected areas in Taiwan between 1997 and 2012 did not record any clouded leopard. [4][5] The population is listed as extinct on the IUCN ...
Neofelis. Neofelis is a genus comprising two extant cat species in Southeast Asia: the clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa) of mainland Asia, and the Sunda clouded leopard ( Neofelis diardi) of Sumatra and Borneo. [ 2][ 3] The scientific name Neofelis is a composite of the Greek word neo- (νέος) meaning 'young' and 'new', and the Latin word ...
The Felidae originated in Central Asia in the Late Miocene; the subfamily Pantherinae diverged from the Felidae between 14.45 to 8.38 million years ago and 16.35 to 7.91 million years ago. [3][4] Several fossil Panthera species were described: Panthera principialis lived during the Early Pliocene around 3.7 million years ago in Tanzania.
The Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi borneensis) is a subspecies of the Sunda clouded leopard. It is native to the island of Borneo, and differs from the Batu - Sumatran clouded leopard in the shape and frequency of spots, as well as in cranio - mandibular and dental characters. [1] In 2017, the Cat Classification Taskforce of the Cat ...