Felis margarita

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Felinae
Genus: Felis
Species:
Subspecies: F. m. margarita – F. m. thinobia

Felis margarita Loche, 1858: 49

Type locality: "dans les environs de Négonça (Sahara), dans une localité très-aride"; Algeria.

• Loche, V. 1858. Description d’une nouvelle espèce de Chat. Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 2^e Série. 10: 49–50. BHL Reference page.  p. 49, pl. II.

• Hemmer H., Grubb P. & Groves, C.P. 1976. Notes on the Sand Cat, Felis margarita Loche, 1858. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 41: 286–303. BHL Reference page. 
• Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, Ch., 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/ SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11: 80 pp. PDF. Reference page. 

• Felis margarita in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• IUCN: Felis margarita Loche, 1858 (Near Threatened)

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