Caracal (Genus)

Caracal
	African golden cat (C. aurata); Caracal (C. caracal)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Caracal; Gray, 1843
Type species
	Caracal melanotis; Gray, 1843
Species
	See text

Short description: Genus of carnivores

Caracal is a genus in the subfamily Felinae of the family Felidae. It was proposed by John Edward Gray in 1843 who described a skin from the Cape of Good Hope in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.^[1] Historically, it was considered to be a monotypic genus, consisting of only the type species: the caracal C. caracal.^[2]

Taxonomy

Phylogenetic analysis revealed that caracal, African golden cat (C. aurata) and serval (Leptailurus serval) are genetically closely related forming a genetic lineage that diverged from the common ancestor of the Felidae 7.91 to 4.14 million years ago.^[3] This taxonomic classification is used in the IUCN Red List for the African golden cat.^[4] It is used as a synonym for the serval.^[5]

Genus **Caracal** – Gray, 1843 – two species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Double-toothed kite	Caracal caracal (Schreber, 1776) Three subspecies Southern caracal (C. c. caracal) (Schreber, 1776) Northern caracal (C. c. nubicus) (Fischer, 1829)^[6] Asiatic caracal (C. c. schmitzi) (Matschie, 1912)	Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT ^[7]
African golden cat	Caracal aurata (Temminck, 1823) Two subspecies C. a. aurata (Temminck, 1827) C. a. celidogaster (Temminck, 1827)	Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia ; winters north to the Amazon basin and the Guyana Shield	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU ^[4]

References

↑ Gray, J. E. (1843). "The Caracal". List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. p. 46. https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso00brit_0/page/150/mode/1up.
↑ Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Genus Carcal". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000013.
↑ Johnson, W. E.; Eizirik, E.; Pecon-Slattery, J.; Murphy, W.J.; Antunes, A.; Teeling, E.; O'Brien, S.J. (2006). "The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment". Science 311 (5757): 73–7. doi:10.1126/science.1122277. PMID 16400146. Bibcode: 2006Sci...311...73J. https://zenodo.org/record/1230866.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Bahaa-el-din, L.; Mills, D.; Hunter, L.; Henschel, P. (2015). "Caracal aurata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T18306A50663128. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18306/50663128.
↑ Thiel, C. (2015). "Leptailurus serval". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T11638A50654625. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11638/50654625. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
↑ Fischer, J. B. (1829). "F. caracal Schreb.". Synopsis Mammalium. Stuttgart: J. G. Cottae. p. 210. https://books.google.com/books?id=_no-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA210.
↑ Avgan, B.; Henschel, P.; Ghoddousi, A. (2016). "Caracal caracal". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T3847A102424310. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T3847A50650230.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/3847/102424310. Retrieved 15 January 2022. {{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)

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[1] Gray, J. E. (1843). "The Caracal". List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London: The Trustees of the British Museum. p. 46. https://archive.org/details/listofspecimenso00brit_0/page/150/mode/1up.

[MSW3-2] Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Genus Carcal". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000013.

[3] Johnson, W. E.; Eizirik, E.; Pecon-Slattery, J.; Murphy, W.J.; Antunes, A.; Teeling, E.; O'Brien, S.J. (2006). "The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment". Science 311 (5757): 73–7. doi:10.1126/science.1122277. PMID 16400146. Bibcode: 2006Sci...311...73J. https://zenodo.org/record/1230866.

[iucn-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Bahaa-el-din, L.; Mills, D.; Hunter, L.; Henschel, P. (2015). "Caracal aurata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T18306A50663128. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18306/50663128.

[5] Thiel, C. (2015). "Leptailurus serval". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T11638A50654625. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11638/50654625. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

[6] Fischer, J. B. (1829). "F. caracal Schreb.". Synopsis Mammalium. Stuttgart: J. G. Cottae. p. 210. https://books.google.com/books?id=_no-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA210.

[7] Avgan, B.; Henschel, P.; Ghoddousi, A. (2016). "Caracal caracal". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T3847A102424310. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T3847A50650230.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/3847/102424310. Retrieved 15 January 2022. {{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)

Caracal

African golden cat (C. aurata) Caracal (C. caracal)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Caracal Gray, 1843
Type species
Caracal melanotis Gray, 1843
Species
See text